Re: [kvm-devel] debug and breakpoint interrupts handling?

2007-06-27 Thread Dor Laor
>BTW, I think that turning on debugger from qemu is a dangerous action, >from security point of view. Once the gdbserver is started, anybody >can connect to it (with gdb) and modify VM memory in anyway he wants >(like overwrite kernel with malicious code). The problem why this is >feasible is becau

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1744028 ] FC7 Guest crashes when reboot (mmio_needed)

2007-06-27 Thread SourceForge.net
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[kvm-devel] simple question: is there a 'direct access' mode for guests

2007-06-27 Thread ron minnich
I am building a system that is using virtualization for partitioning, running 2 Linux images. The guest needs direct access to IB interfaces. This will be exclusive access, not shared with any other domain. This is easily done on Xen, I am not sure I understand if (or how) it can be done on KVM.

[kvm-devel] Optimizing KVM's

2007-06-27 Thread David Brown
I was kinda wondering if anyone out there had done testing with multiple kvm's on a single box and how kvm handles when running lots of guest OS's (say 10+). Should I keep the number of kvm's strictly less than the number of cores? Has there been any testing bringing up 10+ kvm's on a single box?

Re: [kvm-devel] Optimizing KVM's

2007-06-27 Thread Dor Laor
>I was kinda wondering if anyone out there had done testing with >multiple kvm's on a single box and how kvm handles when running lots >of guest OS's (say 10+). Kvm has been used with 20 VMs and even 40 over a single host dual/quad core). It also has been tested with ballooning, using over commit

Re: [kvm-devel] simple question: is there a 'direct access' mode forguests

2007-06-27 Thread Dor Laor
>I am building a system that is using virtualization for partitioning, >running 2 Linux images. > >The guest needs direct access to IB interfaces. This will be exclusive >access, not shared with any other domain. This is easily done on Xen, >I am not sure I understand if (or how) it can be done on

Re: [kvm-devel] simple question: is there a 'direct access' mode forguests

2007-06-27 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:08 -0700, Dor Laor wrote: > >I am building a system that is using virtualization for partitioning, > >running 2 Linux images. > > > >The guest needs direct access to IB interfaces. This will be exclusive > >access, not shared with any other domain. This is easily done on X

Re: [kvm-devel] In kernel PIC support: kernel patch

2007-06-27 Thread Luca
On 6/26/07, Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 18:08 -0400, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > Note that there is another standard that would allow us to use built-in > > > routing without ACPI/IOAPIC: MSI. I know the battle over > > > virtual-bus-rendering is still raging w.r

Re: [kvm-devel] debug and breakpoint interrupts handling?

2007-06-27 Thread Jun Koi
On 6/27/07, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >BTW, I think that turning on debugger from qemu is a dangerous action, > >from security point of view. Once the gdbserver is started, anybody > >can connect to it (with gdb) and modify VM memory in anyway he wants > >(like overwrite kernel with mal

Re: [kvm-devel] debug and breakpoint interrupts handling?

2007-06-27 Thread Dor Laor
>On 6/27/07, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >BTW, I think that turning on debugger from qemu is a dangerous action, >> >from security point of view. Once the gdbserver is started, anybody >> >can connect to it (with gdb) and modify VM memory in anyway he wants >> >(like overwrite kernel wit

Re: [kvm-devel] A small fix

2007-06-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Willow Schlanger wrote: > Hi, in vmx_vcpu_setup() is this code: > > vmcs_writel(GUEST_IDTR_BASE, 0); > vmcs_write32(GUEST_IDTR_LIMIT, 0x); > > But if you use SIDT on a real processor, after boot-up, you will see the > real-mode base is in fact 0, but the limit is 0x3ff. That is, in

Re: [kvm-devel] debug and breakpoint interrupts handling?

2007-06-27 Thread Jun Koi
On 6/28/07, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 6/27/07, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >BTW, I think that turning on debugger from qemu is a dangerous > action, > >> >from security point of view. Once the gdbserver is started, anybody > >> >can connect to it (with gdb) and modify V