Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Refactor AIO interface to allow other AIO implementations

2008-04-22 Thread Javier Guerra
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm rooting for btrfs myself. but could btrfs (when stable) work for migration? i'm curious about OCFS2 performance on this kind of load... when i manage to sell the idea of a KVM cluster i'd like to know if i should try f

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Guerra
What about Lua? (http://www.lua.org) it started up as a configuration language, and evolved into a full programming language, while remaining _very_ light (less than 200K with all libraries), and wonderfully easy to embed into C programs. it lets you write things like: drives = { hda = {if='s

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Guerra
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Javier Guerra wrote: > > What about Lua? (http://www.lua.org) > > > > it started up as a configuration language, and evolved into a full > > programming

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Guerra
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Javier Guerra wrote: > > when embedded, you get to choose what libraries are available. there > > are several examples of fairly secure settings. > > Why artif

Re: [kvm-devel] howto set up a virtual firewall?

2008-02-20 Thread Javier Guerra
On 2/20/08, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming you have eth0 on the host, tap0 on the host visible as eth0 in > the guest, and tap1 in the host visible as eth1 in the guest, you can > add a bridge between eth0 and tap0, and use tap1 as the nic in the host > for IP (e.g. run 'dhclie

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM architecture docs

2008-03-04 Thread Javier Guerra
On 3/4/08, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apply to kvm guests. With mmu notifiers, the trend will grow even stronger. could you (or anybody) elaborate on that? the mmu-related threads show lots of progress, but it's way (way) out of my league. AFAICT, it's about the infrastructure to l

Re: [kvm-devel] how increase performance of network io in kvm

2008-03-11 Thread Javier Guerra
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We published virtio network drivers for Linux but not yet for Windows. > Our virtio drivers for windows are almost done (for rev#1), we'll surely > release the binaries for them. great!! no need to fool around with xen/vmwa

Re: [kvm-devel] Boot script

2008-03-11 Thread Javier Guerra
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Matthias Pfafferodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * set up the bridged network at boot trivially easy. in fact, it's easier to write a script than to do it by hand. > * start all domains at boot time (or restore saved domains) from trivial to moderate, dependin

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

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM running on Mac?

2007-12-04 Thread Javier Guerra
On 12/4/07, Neo Jia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen the Qemu is ported to OSX. Is there any plan for KVM? Just > curious. similarily, there are OSX installs over VMWare, but haven't seen one on KVM... -- Javier -

[kvm-devel] Fwd: kvm 58 and vncviewer

2008-01-03 Thread Javier Guerra
-- Forwarded message -- From: Javier Guerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 3, 2008 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] kvm 58 and vncviewer To: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 1/3/08, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, you are using vncviewer to view

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] qemu: use statically allocate 512 byte buffer in the stack for sector in bdrv_commit

2008-01-07 Thread Javier Guerra
On 1/7/08, Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm wondering now is: is it really useful to have "cache=off" and > "snapshot=on" at the same time ? does "cache=off" means disk cache? if so, it might be useful to test clustering filesystems. so far, the only way is to setup a network

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] qemu: use statically allocate 512 byte buffer in the stack for sector in bdrv_commit

2008-01-07 Thread Javier Guerra
On 1/7/08, Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "cache=off" means files is opened with "O_DIRECT" and thus there is no > cache in the kernel memory on the host side. > IMO, "cache=off" and "snapshot=on" are incompatible because a snapshot > can be seen like a cache. > > > so far, the only wa

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] qemu: use statically allocate 512 byte buffer in the stack for sector in bdrv_commit

2008-01-07 Thread Javier Guerra
On 1/7/08, Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le lundi 07 janvier 2008 à 11:03 -0500, Javier Guerra a écrit : > > hopefully, it would now work with "-cache=off", don't you think? > > Well, I don't think the problem is at the host level but at the

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Refactor AIO interface to allow other AIO implementations

2008-04-20 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Avi Kivity wrote: > Also, I'd presume that those that need 10K IOPS and above will not place > their high throughput images on a filesystem; rather on a separate SAN LUN. i think that too; but still that LUN would be accessed by the VM's via one of these IO emulation laye

Re: [kvm-devel] Feedback and errors

2008-05-04 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Friday 02 May 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote: > What we really need is a global configuration file so that individual > users can select these defaults according to what makes sense for them. i favor the idea of writing parameters into the boot image itself. -- Javier signature.asc Description

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] e1000 emulation code

2008-01-09 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Dor Laor wrote: > Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbps. very nice! in a related note, the VMWare tools package, which is supposed to 'enhance performance' by installing 'specially tuned' drivers into a guest, doesn't include ne