>-Original Message-
>From: Gregory Haskins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:20 PM
>To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Dor Laor
>Subject: RE: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 00/10] in-kernel APIC v3 (kernel side)
>
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 9:07 AM, in message
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>I'm a little confused about the bottom line on this one: can I take a
>vm image file created under VMWare, use it with kvm, and expect it to
>"just work?" If it's a windows VM, do I need to create hardware
>profiles?
Although I haven't tried it, Linux guests should work. We added support
for q
>(assuming that hasn't happened already?)
You're right on time..
>
>One thing that would make my life easier going forward would be if we
could
>separate out the interrupt related state from the [gs]et_sregs() calls.
>What I propose is that we make two new calls (say [gs]et_pic). For
"level-
>0"
>Hi
> How do I get status of a VM ? What states are
>available ?
> running, stopped/paused, shutting down, blocked,
>starting ?
For some of these states you'll need an agent running within the guest
{starting, shutting down}.
Note that currently except for virt-manager/libvirt there is no op
Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> I don't understand. Isn't the tpr read- only from the point of view of
>> the lapic?
>>
>>
>
> Not quite. Its true that the APIC proper views the TPR as read-only.
> However, TPR can be set by the CPU using both MOV to CR8 as well as an MMIO
> operation to
Dong, Eddie wrote:
> Avi:
> Following commit mentioned guest state leaking into host, Can u
> explain a bit?
> In my understanding, as if control goes to vmx_vcpu_run, CPU
> preemption is disabled, i.e. no rescheduling will happen (Guest
> resheduling will only happen at IOCTL return t
Michael Ivanov wrote:
> Avi Kivity пишет:
>
>
>>> * ctrl alt does NOT release the pointer
>>>
>> This is strange.
>>
> Just tested it again with kvm-24
> The pointer is not released on ctrl del.
> When the guest system reboots the system does not hang anymore though.
>
> Is it poss
Omar Khan wrote:
> hi,
>What is the status of paravirtualization?
It's basically stalled.
However, I'd like to restart this, on a much bigger scale. Using
paravirt_ops, one can use direct paging (like Xen) instead of shadow
paging, and achieve better performance. In fact, it should be fa
Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Here is my latest series incorporating the feedback and numerous bugfixes. I
> did not keep an official change-log, so its difficult to say what changed off
> the top of my head without an interdiff. I will keep a changelog from here on
> out. Lets call this drop officia
>ron minnich wrote:
>> Let me ask what may seem to be a naive question to the linux world. I
>> see you are doing a lot off solid work on adding block and network
>> devices. The code for block and network devices
>> is implemented in different ways. I've also seen this difference of
>> inerface/im
Gregory Haskins wrote:
On Wed, May 9, 2007 at 6:12 PM, in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Dor Laor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if VMX or SVM have an option of injecting several virq at once.
>>
>
> VMX definitely does not (IIUC). I don't know enough abo
Gregory Haskins wrote:
> (assuming that hasn't happened already?)
>
> One thing that would make my life easier going forward would be if we could
> separate out the interrupt related state from the [gs]et_sregs() calls. What
> I propose is that we make two new calls (say [gs]et_pic). For "level
Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> As of May 1st I could boot 64 bit SLED. As of yesterday, it exceptions
>> immediately in the bootloader. This happens both with and without my APIC
>> patches applied.
>>
>>>
>>>
>> Any idea of what checkin was the cause? At least, which release was th
Gregory Haskins wrote:
> The load-average on my system is about 1 while XP is idling. qemu seems to
> be mostly at "0%" but will bounce up to 1% on occasion. Here is the output
> of "top -b -p " over a few seconds:
>
> top - 09:17:45 up 16:58, 3 users, load average: 1.02, 0.86, 0.42
> Tasks:
Gregory Haskins wrote:
> I am pleased to announce v3, which builds upon v2 by adding:
>
While I haven't reviewed all this yet, it look like we can merge this
early next week.
What remains to be done:
- boot test mainstream (Linux + Windows) guests on (vmx, svm) x (32, 64)
host x (32, 64) gue
Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Please include patch descriptions.
> ---
>
> drivers/kvm/kvm.h |2 +
> drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 82
>
> 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 4:00 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dor Laor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Superb results, when I run the old in- kernel apic I got much higher idle
> cpu consumtion. I know that's vmenter- vmexit latency was drastically
> improved but 0- 1% cpu consumption fo
>>> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 8:02 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> Here is my latest series incorporating the feedback and numerous bugfixes.
> I
>> did not keep an official change- log, so its difficult to say what changed
>>
>>
>> Superb results, when I run the old in- kernel apic I got much higher
idle
>> cpu consumtion. I know that's vmenter- vmexit latency was drastically
>> improved but 0- 1% cpu consumption for winxp 32 bit sounds too good
to be
>> true.
>> Are you sure an ACPI HAL is used in the guest? (can be ch
Dor Laor wrote:
> push it into the kernel are:
> a. We should perform much better
> b. It would be a painful task getting all the code review that a
>
> complicated network interface should get.
> c. There's already a PV driver that answers a,b.
> The Xen's PV network dri
Thanks again... see below.
-- Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi
> > How do I get status of a VM ? What states are
> >available ?
> > running, stopped/paused, shutting down, blocked,
> >starting ?
>
> For some of these states you'll need an agent
> running within the guest
> {starting
Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> I think that it should be writable, as the vcpu wants interrupts to be
>> pushed into it (a write op) rather than it indicates it wants data to be
>> pulled out of it.
>>
>
> Ok, I think we might just be confusing terms. What you describe is
> essentially wh
>Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device
>driver
>
>Dor Laor wrote:
>> push it into the kernel are:
>> a. We should perform much better
>> b. It would be a painful task getting all the code review that a
>>
>> complicated network interface should get.
jd wrote:
> Thanks again... see below.
>
> -- Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>> Hi
>>> How do I get status of a VM ? What states are
>>> available ?
>>> running, stopped/paused, shutting down, blocked,
>>> starting ?
>>>
These sound very familiar :-) These are the states t
Dor Laor wrote:
> Furthermore,
>
>> the plan is to completely rearchitect the netback/netfront protocol for
>> the next Xen release (this effort is referred to netchannel2).
>>
>
> But isn't Jeremy Fitzhardinge is pushing big patch queue into the
> kernel?
>
Yes, but it's not in the ker
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:49:14AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Dor Laor wrote:
> > Furthermore,
> >
> >> the plan is to completely rearchitect the netback/netfront
> >> protocol for the next Xen release (this effort is referred to
> >> netchannel2).
> >>
> >
> > But isn't Jeremy Fitzhar
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device
>driver
>
>On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:49:14AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Dor Laor wrote:
>> > Furthermore,
>> >
>> >> the plan is to completely rearchitect the netback/netfront
>> >> protocol for the next Xen release (this
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 11:49 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Dor Laor wrote:
> > Furthermore,
> >
> >> the plan is to completely rearchitect the netback/netfront protocol for
> >> the next Xen release (this effort is referred to netchannel2).
> > It's looks like generalizing all the level 0,1,2 f
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