[kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, in the last 2 weeks we play a lot with our new server which we but to a our virtual server for the development and collect some very subjective experience. we use kvm and virt-manager, but sometimes i'm not really sure about the whether it's kvm or virt-manager problem so i collect them togethe

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Izik Eidus
Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > in the last 2 weeks we play a lot with our new server which we but to a > our virtual server for the development and collect some very subjective > experience. we use kvm and virt-manager, but sometimes i'm not really > sure about the whether it's kvm or virt-manager p

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Luca
On 9/8/07, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kvm is not ready for production use for many reason: > it can't reboot which imho a very basic feature, what's more can't even > shutdown/poweroff. the centos i386 guest are not able to shutdown on the > x86_64 host (strange the x86_64 centos a

[kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi, This is my first message to the list, and I've just discovered KVM... so please have patience with my (probably stupid and answered in some FAQ already ;) questions... The first question that comes to mind is that the project description mentions Intel's virtualization features... I don't ha

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Farkas Levente
Luca wrote: > On 9/8/07, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> kvm is not ready for production use for many reason: >> it can't reboot which imho a very basic feature, what's more can't even >> shutdown/poweroff. the centos i386 guest are not able to shutdown on the >> x86_64 host (strange t

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Luca
On 9/8/07, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is my first message to the list, and I've just discovered KVM... so > please have patience with my (probably stupid and answered in some FAQ > already ;) questions... Yep, it's in the FAQ: http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/FAQ#head-089ef

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Luca
On 9/8/07, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca wrote: > > On 9/8/07, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> kvm is not ready for production use for many reason: > >> it can't reboot which imho a very basic feature, what's more can't even > >> shutdown/poweroff. the centos i386

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Izik Eidus
Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hi, > > This is my first message to the list, and I've just discovered KVM... > so please have patience with my (probably stupid and answered in some > FAQ already ;) questions... > > The first question that comes to mind is that the project description > mentions Intel'

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/8/07, Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > kvm have support to amd virtualization extensions., you your cpu have > it, you should have no problem to use kvm. > > > That's great!!. The more I read about KVM the

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 13:15 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > kvm is not ready for production use for many reason: > it can't reboot which imho a very basic feature, what's more can't even > shutdown/poweroff. the centos i386 guest are not able to shutdown on the > x86_64 host (strange the x86_6

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Luca
On 9/8/07, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Point #3: Xen vs KVM... I'm confused > > The above move by RedHat is a bit confusing... what can Xen do that KVM > cannot?. In other words, why should anyone even bother with Xen with KVM > around ??. Xen is probably more mature, and has more

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 19:01 +0200, Luca wrote: > On 9/8/07, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Point #3: Xen vs KVM... I'm confused > > > > The above move by RedHat is a bit confusing... what can Xen do that KVM > > cannot?. In other words, why should anyone even bother with Xen with K

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Farkas Levente
Anthony Liguori wrote: >> the host see as i've 4 cpu. i've got a change to gives more cpu to the >> guest, what's more they starts, but after a few minutes running the >> system crash. not just the guest os but the host os crash without any >> kind of info, log or any useful info what was the cause

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 22:50 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> the host see as i've 4 cpu. i've got a change to gives more cpu to the > >> guest, what's more they starts, but after a few minutes running the > >> system crash. not just the guest os but the host os crash with

Re: [kvm-devel] sharing memory

2007-09-08 Thread Dor Laor
Cam Macdonell wrote: > Dor Laor wrote: >> >> In the guest you need the matching pci driver. Currently you can you the >> attached one, >> I'm not sure if it is uptodate. Soon we'll post a device that uses >> virtio for the vmchannel. >> -Dor > > Would the existing hypercall.c that is in kvm-userspa