Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Soren Hansen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:43:51AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to help debug this issue? It's a bit odd. I was certain that I had had it running with the modules

Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Amit Shah
On Friday 18 January 2008 13:34:20 Soren Hansen wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:43:51AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to help debug this issue? It's a bit odd.

Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Soren Hansen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:38:03PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to help debug this issue? It's a bit odd. I was certain that I had had it running with the modules

Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Amit Shah
On Friday 18 January 2008 14:44:42 Soren Hansen wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:38:03PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to help debug this issue? It's a bit odd.

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 0 of 6] Enhance PowerPC unit tests

2008-01-18 Thread Hollis Blanchard
These patches create libcflat for PowerPC and allow testcases to communicate with kvmctl via MMIO. They culminate in a C testcase that returns an error code through kvmctl to the shell. The x86 Makefiles looked hairy enough that I didn't want to mess with them, but it should be fairly easy to

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 2] Define and use CONFIG_KVM_HAS_PIO so that we don't need pio_data in kvm_arch_vcpu

2008-01-18 Thread Hollis Blanchard
# HG changeset patch # User Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Date 1200434310 21600 # Node ID 7fa5947a2da8c0c7424ebdcfaebcae624d6cf015 # Parent ee0c227fe3f6632f4b1b5fde3f7e05c8ea0a4378 Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 2

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] add acpi powerbutton support

2008-01-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: I think we need to go back to active low pci irqs, and to have no-ioapic working we need to insert an inverter between the pci irq links and the pic. I base this on the following: - piix doesn't contain an ioapic, so the actual lines must be active low - the piix pic

Re: [kvm-devel] 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 (KVM build issues)

2008-01-18 Thread Balbir Singh
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-17 02:35:14]: - kvm probably doesn't work properly because I couldn't be bothered fixing the conflicts between git-kvm and the driver tree Hi, Andrew, The following changes got KVM up and running for me This patch fixes the kvm build on

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1874203 ] qemu-kvm gives just black screen

2008-01-18 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1874203, was opened at 2008-01-18 00:14 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=1874203group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM simplified virtio balloon driver

2008-01-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio balloon can be made even simpler. Here's my attempt. Since the balloon requires Guest cooperation anyway, there seems little reason to force it to tell the Host when it wants to reuse a page. It can

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM simplified virtio balloon driver

2008-01-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: It would be very useful too to write vb-num_pages into the config space whenever it was updated. This way, the host can easily keep track of where the guest is at in terms of ballooning. OTOH it's currently pretty obvious (and usually fatal) if