[kvm-devel] Shutdown Fedora 8

2007-11-28 Thread Anton Patrushev
Hi, I'm using kvm-51 on FC5. Fedora 8 guest don't properly shutdown in such environment - console freeze after message 'System halted'. May be this problem was fixed in later releases of KVM ? I can't use later releases, because migrate was broken (at the least in kvm-53). -- WBR, Anton Patrushe

Re: [kvm-devel] Should we move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt to arch?

2007-11-28 Thread Carsten Otte
Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > Since IA64's irqchip is always in kernel side, so we don't need > kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt for irq delivery. Should we moved it to arch? > Otherwise, we have to define two unnecessary fields(irq_summary and > irq_pending) for vcpu structure for compile pass. We don't h

Re: [kvm-devel] Should we move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt to arch?

2007-11-28 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Carsten Otte wrote:KVM_IRQ_LINE > Zhang, Xiantao wrote: >> Since IA64's irqchip is always in kernel side, so we don't need >> kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt for irq delivery. Should we moved it to >> arch? Otherwise, we have to define two unnecessary >> fields(irq_summary and irq_pending) for vcpu s

Re: [kvm-devel] Should we move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt to arch?

2007-11-28 Thread Carsten Otte
Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > You mean you also need these two fields to hold irqs ? No we don't. I think they can go to x86. - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop

Re: [kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1666308 ] Freedos HIMEM.EXE hangs kvm-14 qemu on Intel CPU

2007-11-28 Thread Neo Jia
Avi, May I have your comments on the output I got from KVM CS:RIP instructions? Thanks, Neo On Nov 25, 2007 7:05 PM, SourceForge.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bugs item #1666308, was opened at 2007-02-22 08:09 > Message generated for change (Comment added) made by chenghuan_jia > You can resp

[kvm-devel] kvm-54 test results

2007-11-28 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, we try kvm-54 and there are some prgress:-) - mandrake-9 boot again (so now all guest are able to boot), - 64bit centos-5 guest are running with smp, - 32bit centos-5 guest are boot with smp for the first time, but if i poweroff and start it again with 4vcpu then the boot hang at the usual "Sta

Re: [kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1666308 ] Freedos HIMEM.EXE hangs kvm-14 qemu on Intel CPU

2007-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Neo Jia wrote: > Avi, > > May I have your comments on the output I got from KVM CS:RIP instructions? > > The xor instruction can't cause a task switch. Suggest adding printk()s to the kernel to see what is happening. > Thanks, > Neo > > On Nov 25, 2007 7:05 PM, SourceForge.net <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [kvm-devel] build error

2007-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Neo Jia wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 12:37 AM, Uri Lublin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please install unifdef and retry (from "make -C kernel sync"). >> > > Do we need to add a unifdef checking in configure? At least my Fedora > 8 dose not have that command. > unifdef is only needed for

Re: [kvm-devel] Should we move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt to arch?

2007-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > Hi, Avi > Since IA64's irqchip is always in kernel side, so we don't need > kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt for irq delivery. Should we moved it to arch? > Otherwise, we have to define two unnecessary fields(irq_summary and > irq_pending) for vcpu structure for compile pass.

[kvm-devel] [PATCH]Moving KVM_INTERRUPT vcpu ioctl to x86.c

2007-11-28 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
>From 75508cbc5a4b18b44df77d955165171312e4d472 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:36:41 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Moving KVM_INTERRUPT vcpu ioctl to x86.c KVM: Portability Moving KVM_INTERRUPT vcpu ioctl to x86, since other archs doesn't need it

[kvm-devel] Memory sharing among guest OSs

2007-11-28 Thread Haifeng He
Hi, I am pretty new to KVM. I have a question which is if it is possible (or easy) to share memory(such identical pages) among guest OSs in KVM? Thanks Haifeng - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business Whi

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1840186 ] KVM "configure" script doesn't checks for "unifdef"

2007-11-28 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1840186, was opened at 2007-11-28 13:06 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1840186&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1840197 ] new Regression: Solaris-10 ceased to boot

2007-11-28 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1840197, was opened at 2007-11-28 13:33 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1840197&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy

Re: [kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1840186 ] KVM "configure" script doesn't checks for "unifdef"

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:06:52AM -0800, SourceForge.net wrote: > Bugs item #1840186, was opened at 2007-11-28 13:06 > Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1840186

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1840226 ] new Regression: Solaris-10 ceased to boot

2007-11-28 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1840226, was opened at 2007-11-28 14:58 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1840226&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy

Re: [kvm-devel] Bad Performance

2007-11-28 Thread Izik Eidus
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 10:55 -0500, Darren Blaber wrote: > dows is idle, using 1-2% cpu, the kvm process uses > about 20-30% cpu. Whenever I am doing any kind of activity (especially > disk activity) its shoots right up to 99%. Anyway, have a readprofile > snap shot as well as kvm st what windows

Re: [kvm-devel] Memory sharing among guest OSs

2007-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Haifeng He wrote: > Hi, > > I am pretty new to KVM. I have a question which is if it > is possible (or easy) to share memory(such identical pages) > among guest OSs in KVM? > > In KVM, guest memory is normal userspace memory. So you can use any of the standard Linux shared memory mechanisms t

[kvm-devel] Bad Performance

2007-11-28 Thread Darren Blaber
Hello, I was wondering if any of you were able to to help me figure out why I am getting poor performance with kvm. When running windows as a guest os, when windows is idle, using 1-2% cpu, the kvm process uses about 20-30% cpu. Whenever I am doing any kind of activity (especially disk activity)

Re: [kvm-devel] Bad Performance

2007-11-28 Thread Darren Blaber
Izik Eidus wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 10:55 -0500, Darren Blaber wrote: > >> dows is idle, using 1-2% cpu, the kvm process uses >> about 20-30% cpu. Whenever I am doing any kind of activity (especially >> disk activity) its shoots right up to 99%. Anyway, have a readprofile >> snap shot as

Re: [kvm-devel] Bad Performance

2007-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Darren Blaber wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if any of you were able to to help me figure out > why I am getting poor performance with kvm. When running windows as a > guest os, when windows is idle, using 1-2% cpu, the kvm process uses > about 20-30% cpu. Whenever I am doing any kind of activi

Re: [kvm-devel] Memory sharing among guest OSs

2007-11-28 Thread Javier Guerra
On 11/28/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haifeng He wrote: > > I am pretty new to KVM. I have a question which is if it > > is possible (or easy) to share memory(such identical pages) > > among guest OSs in KVM? > > In KVM, guest memory is normal userspace memory. So you can use any of

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1840395 ] FreeBSD/OpenSolaris image corruption

2007-11-28 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1840395, was opened at 2007-11-28 08:55 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1840395&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qemu: IDE/ATAPI emulation reliability fixes

2007-11-28 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
The following patch series implements fixes to the IDE/ATAPI emulation in qemu which are already committed upstream or proposed for inclusion; including 2 serious regressions that result in availability and data loss problems when using OpenSolaris or FreeBSD guests (at least) by the first 2: P

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qemu: GET_CONFIGURATION fixes for MMC-6 DVD-ROM implementation

2007-11-28 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
The following patch complements "Partial IDE DVD emulation", added in ide.c revision 1.66 and that was generating the following timeouts for OpenSolaris guests when trying to access the ATAPI cdrom (during installation for example): WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTEC

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qemu: piix_pci: remove 82371FB support

2007-11-28 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
This patch removes support for 82371FB Step A1 (AKA triton) chips as they are superseded by 82371SB and are currently dead code as all other references were removed already from ide.c since revision 1.57 Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- qemu/hw/piix_pci.c | 25 -

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/5] qemu: piix_pci enable ACPI interrupts

2007-11-28 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
This patch enable ACPI interrupts, by Igor Lvovsky Originally from qemu CVS : cvs -q diff -r1.11 -r1.12 hw/piix_pci.c Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- qemu/hw/piix_pci.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu/hw/piix_pci.

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/5] qemu: revert ide sector write operation not to use AIO

2007-11-28 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
This patch revert "Last AIO Patch" as requested by Fabrice, it is incomplete and breaks other (non-Windows) systems. originally from qemu CVS : cvs -q diff -r1.69 -r1.70 hw/ide.c Data corruption resulting in kernel panics and unbootable images is experienced frequently with FreeBSD and OpenSol

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/5] qemu: ide INQUIRY and IDENTIFY DEVICE report DVD-ROM model

2007-11-28 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
This patch complements "Partial IDE DVD emulation" which was added in ide.c revision 1.66 so that the CD-ROM identifies itself as a DVD-ROM to "INQUIRY" and "IDENTIFY DEVICE" commands Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- qemu/hw/ide.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 i

[kvm-devel] dnsmasq and kvm question

2007-11-28 Thread jack snodgrass
First of all... is there a 'newbie' list? I don't want to send stupid questions to the wrong list is there a way to customize dnsmasq using a dnsmasq.conf file? This may be more Fedora 8 / libvirt / kvm related than kvm specific when libvirt and my kvm guest are started, dnsmasq is starte

Re: [kvm-devel] real mode emulation and memory consumption

2007-11-28 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
>Kamble, Nitin A wrote: >> Hi Avi, >> I am noticing that with SL 10.1 The QEMU process memory consumption >> steadily increases, up the the guest memory size and then the guest dies >> with unhandled vmexit. If I change the guest memory size I can see the >> qemu process dies accordingly, after re

Re: [kvm-devel] Bad Performance

2007-11-28 Thread Darren Blaber
Avi Kivity wrote: > Darren Blaber wrote: >> Hello, I was wondering if any of you were able to to help me figure out >> why I am getting poor performance with kvm. When running windows as a >> guest os, when windows is idle, using 1-2% cpu, the kvm process uses >> about 20-30% cpu. Whenever I am

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] create kvm_x86

2007-11-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 11:18 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Carsten Otte wrote: > > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > >> These patches are based on Xiantao's work to create struct kvm_x86. Patch > >> 1 replaces his "KVM Portability split: Splitting kvm structure (V2)", and > >> patches 2 and 3 build on

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 3] Use kvm_x86 to hold x86 specific kvm fields

2007-11-28 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Signed-off-by: Zhang xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Changes from Xiantao's patch: > - Fix whitespace > - Reorder variables to avoid stack padding > - Leave descriptor_table relocation for another patch > > 8 files

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM external module: Fix 'make sync'

2007-11-28 Thread Amit Shah
>From a60dc9bddf8741743077db07f87dd1cec51bccb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:11:15 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] KVM external module: Fix 'make sync' bash syntax didn't work for me (3.2.25 on Kubuntu) Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 3] Use kvm_x86 to hold x86 specific kvm fields

2007-11-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:20 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > diff --git a/drivers/kvm/ioapic.c b/drivers/kvm/ioapic.c > > --- a/drivers/kvm/ioapic.c > > +++ b/drivers/kvm/ioapic.c > > @@ -276,7 +276,9 @@ static int get_eoi_gsi(struct kvm_ioapic > > > > void kvm_ioapic_

Re: [kvm-devel] AltGR-Key in QEmu-VNC

2007-11-28 Thread Anthony Liguori
Elmar Haneke wrote: > When using VNC Server build into qemu the AltGr-Key seems to be ignored. > > The alternative Ctrl-Alt seems to work but it is less comfortable to > press three keys. > > Any idea how to fix it? > I don't know what the AltGr key is but my suspicion is that you probably nee

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1840711 ] Crashme causes RHEL5 guest kernel panic

2007-11-28 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1840711, was opened at 2007-11-29 11:23 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1840711&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel ff3784. .. , userspace 3a3429...

2007-11-28 Thread Zhao, Yunfeng
-Original Message- From: Zhao, Yunfeng Sent: 2007年11月23日 16:46 To: kvm-devel Subject: KVM Test result, kernel 51727a1.. , userspace 6a385c9.. Hi, all, This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git ff378422888a8b3ff296e30297fcabf1c831ff83 and kvm-userspace.git 3a342937ce00c27b3eefd5