Re: [kvm-devel] system time

2007-09-27 Thread Gildas
some drift is inevitable as the guest > > and host will calibrate differently. > > in the current version or even in long term? > this means it's better to run ntpd on all guests even if it's running on > the host:-(( To be fair, this problem is not kvm related b

Re: [kvm-devel] Firewire Support for KVM Guest?

2007-10-10 Thread Gildas
nks for everyone's patience, given that > knowledgeable KVM list readers may immediately > identify my goal as unrealistic folly. > > -Cal At the moment it seems that there's no support in qemu hence no support in kvm. You can try the qemu mailing list and ask if someone is work

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Paravirt timer for KVM

2007-10-15 Thread Gildas
. > > cheers, > Gerd Hell I don't know what is the best technical way to solve this problem, but as a sysadmin, I'm really "annoyed" when the time starts to drift madly on the servers as soon as the host is loaded (talking about esx servers there but I guess

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFT] kvm with Windows optimization

2007-10-26 Thread Gildas
2007/10/26, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gildas wrote: > > 2007/10/25, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> This is a request for testing of an experimental kvm feature that > >> dramatically accelerates some Windows releases (when running with

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFT] kvm with Windows optimization

2007-10-26 Thread Gildas
t 800e vapic_phys e2000 patching insn at 807039cc insn: 89 0d patched code: 807039cc 51 e8 12 d7 9d ff a1 80 00 fe check insn rip: 807039d2 insn: a1 80 instruction ok at 807039d7 tpr fffe0080 check bios bios ok at 800e vapic_phys e2000 patching insn at 807039d2 ins

Re: [kvm-devel] SMP support on AMD64

2007-11-08 Thread Gildas
's tools to provide a regression testing platform the same way Intel does. It would be really sad to see AMD CPUS being a second class citizen in KVM... Just my 2 cents, Gildas - This SF.net email is sponsored

[kvm-devel] [RFT] embedded kvm distribution: endemics

2007-11-18 Thread Gildas
mproved or fixed. Testing shouldn't take you too long: just download the disk image, copy it to an usb key and boot your usual kvm box on this key! No installation required! I hope you will find this project useful and will find time to help me improving it by testing! B

Re: [kvm-devel] CPU consumption for SMP windows guests.

2007-08-16 Thread Gildas
Hi, I've tested the bios.bin with Windows XP as well and I can confirm this actually fixes BUG 1772966 for me. Will this be integrated in kvm-36? Cheers Gildas 2007/8/16, Jorge Lucángeli Obes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 8/14/07, Igor Lvovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [kvm-devel] Hardware Appliance

2007-09-06 Thread Gildas
will boot from compact flash... Just my 2 pennies though Gildas - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX

Re: [kvm-devel] Build of kvm-37 fails

2007-09-10 Thread Gildas
Le 10/09/07, Gildas<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hi Avi, > > I had the same problem on a laptop with Core2 T7200 @ 2.00GHz > running ubuntu with kernel 2.6.20 > > Going in the kvm-37 source directory and applying the patch with > > patch -p1 > fixed the comp

Re: [kvm-devel] Build of kvm-37 fails

2007-09-10 Thread Gildas
53 ff 00 f0 53 ff 00 f0 53 ff They runned fine with kvm-36 but now they crash even with -no-kvm. Cheers Gildas 2007/9/9, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pelle wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to compile the new kvm-37, and got the following errors: > > > >

[kvm-devel] kvm-37 confusion

2007-09-11 Thread Gildas
enced? It would be easier to spot what's working and what's not. Cheers, Gildas - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse01200

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-36 release

2007-09-12 Thread Gildas
Also, when it boots correctly with "-smp 2" it shows 2 processors in /proc/cpuinfo, but I have messages as follows at bootup: " ACPI : Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device not present [20060707]" (not sure if this is

[kvm-devel] exposed processor type, unsupported operations, intelppm.sys and windows crashs

2007-09-20 Thread Gildas
rrentControlSet\Services\Processor HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Intelppm worked for me and the virtual machine is way quicker now. Cheers, Gildas - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challe

Re: [kvm-devel] windows 2003 smp guest

2007-09-20 Thread Gildas
2007/9/20, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> can you tell me what does the HAL means here? and what's kind of HAL > >> exists what are the advantage/disadvantages them. how can i > >> change/configure this? > > > > Hardware Abstraction Layer. See: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99588 >

[kvm-devel] compilation on ubuntu 32 bit host?

2006-11-10 Thread Gildas
2.6.15-27-686 I have the following packages installed: - zlib1g-dev 1.2.3-6ubuntu4 - uuid-dev 1.2-1.38-2ubuntu2 - linux-kernel-headers 2.6.11.2-0ubuntu18 - e2fslibs-dev 1.38-2ubuntu2 - libsdl-gfx1.2-dev 2.0.13-1 - libsdl1.2-dev 1.2.

Re: [kvm-devel] compilation on ubuntu 32 bit host?

2006-11-10 Thread Gildas
2006/11/10, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gildas wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone managed to compile kvm on an ubuntu 32 bit host? (using the > tarball kvm-2 available on sourceforge) > > [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/install/kvm-2$ make > make -C kernel > make[

Re: [kvm-devel] compilation on ubuntu 32 bit host?

2006-11-14 Thread Gildas
008 vga_update_vram: done exception 13 (0) Aborted (core dumped) In /var/log/syslog I have the following: msrs: 1 vmwrite error: reg 2012 value 0 (err 12) vmwrite error: reg 401c value 0 (err 12) Cheers Gildas - Using

Re: [kvm-devel] compilation on ubuntu 32 bit host?

2006-11-14 Thread Gildas
2006/11/14, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gildas wrote: > Hi all, > > My macbookpro has been reinstalled in ubuntu/edgy and I was able to > compile kvm against kernel 2.6.17-10-generic. > > When booting with "noapic nosmp", I can finally insmod kvm.ko. When

[kvm-devel] sucess: kvm-5/2.6.18.3/debian sarge on IBM blade LS41 (dual amd 8216 HE)

2006-11-29 Thread Gildas
part from this, it "just workTM" with a debian-testing-amd64-businesscard iso. Cheers, Gildas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the

Re: [kvm-devel] OS installation report

2007-01-08 Thread Gildas
> I fixed a couple of bugs which could well be the root cause of these > reports. Please retest with kvm trunk (or kvm-4270 from > http://people.qumranet.com/avi if you don't wish to use subversion). The server is non responsive as far as I can tell