Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Initialize PIIX3 IDE channels as "enabled"

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: > This patch initializes the PIIX3 IDE controllers IDE channels as enabled. > They were previously unconfigured by QEMU. > > IDE devices have been broken on our local lab systems since the introduction > of QEMU 0.9.0 (KVM-14). Tracing the Linux driver for PIIX3 initiali

Re: [kvm-devel] Floating point vs Integer performance

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Benjamin Prosnitz wrote: > I ran some benchmarks inside of KVM-12 on my system and outside of KVM > (no virtualization on my system). I found that floating point > performance when running both with and without KVM was approximately the > same, but integer performance in KVM was about 25% of what

Re: [kvm-devel] Qemu window size + windows XP resolution problem

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Andrew Walrond wrote: > Using v16 (including compiled modules) on a 2.6.20+ kernel, I installed > windows XP as per the howto, which works perfectly. > > I changed the windows screen resolution to 1280x1024x16 in the display > manager, which resized the qemu window and works fine. However, after

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Initialize PIIX3 IDE channels as "enabled"

2007-03-13 Thread Dor Laor
>Gregory Haskins wrote: >> This patch initializes the PIIX3 IDE controllers IDE channels as >enabled. They were previously unconfigured by QEMU. >> >> IDE devices have been broken on our local lab systems since the >introduction of QEMU 0.9.0 (KVM-14). Tracing the Linux driver for PIIX3 >initial

Re: [kvm-devel] Floating point vs Integer performance

2007-03-13 Thread Michael Riepe
Hi! Benjamin Prosnitz wrote: > I ran some benchmarks inside of KVM-12 on my system and outside of KVM > (no virtualization on my system). I found that floating point > performance when running both with and without KVM was approximately the > same, but integer performance in KVM was about 25% of

Re: [kvm-devel] Qemu window size + windows XP resolution problem

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:06:51 Avi Kivity wrote: > Andrew Walrond wrote: > > Using v16 (including compiled modules) on a 2.6.20+ kernel, I installed > > windows XP as per the howto, which works perfectly. > > > > I changed the windows screen resolution to 1280x1024x16 in the display > > manager,

Re: [kvm-devel] Success!

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: > Im pleased to report that with the addition of the PIIX3 fix I posted earlier > coupled with the reversion of 4423, we can now put SUSE Linux Enterprise > Desktop on the list of booting guests. This is verified with 64 bit on 64 > bit on Intel only. The GRUB segfault t

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Initialize PIIX3 IDE channels as "enabled"

2007-03-13 Thread Dor Laor
>>Gregory Haskins wrote: >>> This patch initializes the PIIX3 IDE controllers IDE channels as >>enabled. They were previously unconfigured by QEMU. >>> >>> IDE devices have been broken on our local lab systems since the >>introduction of QEMU 0.9.0 (KVM-14). Tracing the Linux driver for PIIX3 >>

[kvm-devel] inter-VM communications?

2007-03-13 Thread Hirsh, Israel
Hi, does / will KVM provide any way for VMs to communicate, other than via the virtualized network interface? Thanks, Israel. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you

Re: [kvm-devel] inter-VM communications?

2007-03-13 Thread Dor Laor
Hi, does / will KVM provide any way for VMs to communicate, other than via the virtualized network interface? Currently there is no support apart from the network stack (qemu devices or pv drivers). It's possible to use the host's samba but it's also networking based. There's probably will b

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Initialize PIIX3 IDE channels as "enabled"

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Hecken
Hello, if I apply this patch and revert the bios to the one before 4423 I can install Windows 2000 to with acpi. But after the installation it shows the hal without acpi. The good thing whilst installing I don't have to evoke my kvm script again because restart works. Daniel Hecken Dor Laor sch

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Initialize PIIX3 IDE channels as "enabled"

2007-03-13 Thread Dor Laor
>Hello, > >if I apply this patch and revert the bios to the one before 4423 I can >install Windows 2000 to with acpi. But after the installation it shows >the hal without acpi. The good thing whilst installing I don't have to >evoke my kvm script again because restart works. > >Daniel Hecken It wo

Re: [kvm-devel] Success!

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: > >> We will have to figure out what the problem in the BIOS is w.r.t. 4423 >> before this will work with the code in /trunk, however. >> >> > > I'll take a look. > I went through a Windows XP install cycle; it worked but no acpi. I don't know what fixed this; ma

[kvm-devel] Status of SMP?

2007-03-13 Thread Gregory Haskins
Hi all, So what is the status of SMP support and is someone working on this? I have some ideas about how to implement this and can spend some time with it if it would be helpful. I just dont want to duplicate efforts. -Greg --

Re: [kvm-devel] Status of SMP?

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: > Hi all, > So what is the status of SMP support and is someone working on this? I > have some ideas about how to implement this and can spend some time with it > if it would be helpful. I just dont want to duplicate efforts. > SMP is planned, though of course help

Re: [kvm-devel] Success!

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> We will have to figure out what the problem in the BIOS is w.r.t. >>> 4423 before this will work with the code in /trunk, however. >>> >> >> I'll take a look. >> > > I went through a Windows XP install cycle; it worked but no acpi. I > don

[kvm-devel] [GIT PULL] kvm updates for 2.6.21-rc3

2007-03-13 Thread Avi Kivity
Linus, The following kvm stability and correctness fixes since commit 8b9909ded6922c33c221b105b26917780cfa497d: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'merge' of master.kernel.org:/.../paulus/powerpc are found in the 'linus' branch of the git repository at: git://kvm.qumranet.com/home/avi

[kvm-devel] Fwd: Re: Status of SMP?

2007-03-13 Thread Gregory Haskins
BTW: Please excuse my stupid confusion of uP (microprocessor) with UP (uniprocessor). Duh! >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:43 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Haskins wrote: > >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:09 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: