Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/6] virtio net driver

2007-09-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:42 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu: > > Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid > > of it since it's > > > > 1) unnecessary; > > 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice. > > Ok, b

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Scott Serr wrote: > I must use VMware sometimes for colaboration projects where others are > using VMware. And also a situation where I have a VERY old development > environment perfectly tweaked on Win98. I have to do one of these say > 10% of the time. > > 100% of the time I'd like to use KV

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/6] virtio interace

2007-09-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: > > But now each virtio device has two "struct device"s, not one. And > > you've made up a fictional bus to do it. > > > > Yet for PCI systems, it really is a PCI device; exposing a seco

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-38 release

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Haydn Solomon wrote: > You guys are quick! Ok, kvm-39 allows me to run my windows xp machine > now. I just have one question that I'm not sure of.. should reboot be > working now? I tried rebooting the windows xp and got the following > output. > Windows ACPI reboot is still broken. -- err

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] HSM violation

2007-09-23 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
Hi; With very recent kernels libata throws lots of errors while booting and it makes booting really really slow, while searching the solution i found following bug reports [1],[2] and following commit [3]. Following diff against kvm-userspace HEAD solves this issue for kvm. This chunk of code

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] HSM violation

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
S.Çağlar Onur wrote: > Hi; > > With very recent kernels libata throws lots of errors while booting and it > makes booting really really slow, while searching the solution i found > following bug reports [1],[2] and following commit [3]. > > Following diff against kvm-userspace HEAD solves this is

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/3] move grp decoding to function to make x86_emulate_insn() clearer

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Laurent Vivier wrote: > To improve readability, move push, writeback, and grp 1a/2/3/4/5/9 emulation > parts to functions. > > This patchset doesn't apply, and the changes are too big for me to fix. Please rebase. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function --

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/3] move grp decoding to function to make x86_emulate_insn() clearer

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: > Laurent Vivier wrote: >> To improve readability, move push, writeback, and grp 1a/2/3/4/5/9 >> emulation parts to functions. >> >> > > This patchset doesn't apply, and the changes are too big for me to > fix. Please rebase. > Also, please make sure the patches don't add t

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] virtio ring helper

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:43 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Rusty Russell wrote: >> >>> These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors >>> which want to use a ring for virtio. Unlike the previous lguest >>> implementation: >>> >>> 3) The page nu

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/6] virtio interace

2007-09-23 Thread Dor Laor
Rusty Russell wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: But now each virtio device has two "struct device"s, not one. And you've made up a fictional bus to do it. Yet for PCI systems, it really is a PCI device;

Re: [kvm-devel] [et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: virt-top 0.3.2.7 released

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Farkas Levente wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> Libvirt needs works to support block and network stats from QEMU/KVM. >> Virt-top won't fail because this is missing, it just can't display >> anything in those columns. The work as far as I understand it is fairly >> simple, but also lower

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] virtio ring helper

2007-09-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:05 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:43 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> 32 bits of page numbers give 44 bits of physical address on x86. That's > >> 16TB per guest. Admittedly it's smaller on a VAX. > > > > I like to feel that I

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] virtio ring helper

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 12:05 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Rusty Russell wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:43 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> 32 bits of page numbers give 44 bits of physical address on x86. That's 16TB per guest. Admittedly it's

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH] ignore set_cr3 GP fault in non-pae mode

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Ryan Harper wrote: > Playing around with running VMware-server within a KVM guest and noticed > that whenever we launch a VM within the guest, KVM reports a GP fault in > set_cr3. Removing the fault injection (raised for attempting to set > reserved bits) for the non-pae case allows memtest to boo

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-38 release

2007-09-23 Thread Haydn Solomon
It works for me... I'm able to reboot a windows 2003 server R2 as well as windows XP service pack 1. On 9/23/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haydn Solomon wrote: > > You guys are quick! Ok, kvm-39 allows me to run my windows xp machine > > now. I just have one question that I'm not

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-38 release

2007-09-23 Thread Haydn Solomon
My apologies... these two vms are standard pc HAL. On 9/23/07, Haydn Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It works for me... I'm able to reboot a windows 2003 server R2 as well as > windows XP service pack 1. > > On 9/23/07, Avi Kivity < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Haydn Solomon wrote: > >

[kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-44 release

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
An important fix to guest smp (it boots now!), and a performance improvement on Intel hardware. I get about 5% boost on a kernel build. There's a new module parameter to kvm-intel.ko that can disable this mechanism, bypass_guest_pf. Load the module with bypass_guest_pf=0 to disable the optimi

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-23 Thread Scott Serr
Avi Kivity wrote: > Scott Serr wrote: >> I must use VMware sometimes for colaboration projects where others >> are using VMware. And also a situation where I have a VERY old >> development environment perfectly tweaked on Win98. I have to do one >> of these say 10% of the time. >> >> 100% of t

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Scott Serr wrote: >> >> I believe VMware uses real mode transiently, which is not possible >> when vmx extensions are enabled. So using VMware and kvm >> concurrently is not possible. >> >> Maybe one of the following will suit: >> - run the Windows 98 image in qemu (without kvm). This will have

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-44 release

2007-09-23 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > An important fix to guest smp (it boots now!), and a performance > improvement on Intel hardware. I get about 5% boost on a kernel build. > > There's a new module parameter to kvm-intel.ko that can disable this > mechanism, bypass_guest_pf. Load the module with bypass_guest

[kvm-devel] BUG_ON in mmu.c:436

2007-09-23 Thread Ryan Harper
I've run into a nasty bug while trying to install a Linux guest using VMware Server inside a kvm guest (full dmesg attached and recreate instructions below bug). kernel BUG at /opt/tickless/kvm-43/kernel/mmu.c:436! invalid opcode: [1] SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm Pid: 3274, comm

Re: [kvm-devel] BUG_ON in mmu.c:436

2007-09-23 Thread Scott Serr
Hi Ryan, I had a similar problem yesterday with Xen. I posted it to the Xen mailing list. Now I'm hopeful of try this in KVM, but it looks like you aren't having much luck. (stopping on anaconda rings a bell) Here is part of my post: Xen HVM = CentOS 4.5 running VMware Server 1.0.4

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