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

2008-05-14 Thread Colin Adams
That's very nearly YAML format[1], which is attractive because parsers are available in every major programming language, Really? I can't find one for Eiffel. Can you give me a pointer please? - This SF.net email is

Re: [kvm-devel] Windows PV driver for KVM

2008-05-14 Thread Dor Laor
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:55 +0800, Jiang, Yunhong wrote: Hi, Dor, I just checked the URL and seems it is not updated still, willyou update it? Avi, since it passed regression, we can release it (also with the .pdb file). -- Yunhong Jiang Dor Laor mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [kvm-devel] Protected mode transitions and big real mode... still an issue

2008-05-14 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Tue, 6 May 2008 20:05:39 +0300 Mohammed Gamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WinXP fails with the patch applied too. Ubuntu 7.10 live CD and FreeDOS don't boot but complain about instruction mov 0x11,sreg not being emulated. Mohammed, can you try the patch at the end of this mail? Here

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM: LAPIC: ignore pending timers if LVTT is disabled

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Only use the APIC pending timers count to break out of HLT emulation if the timer vector is enabled. Certain configurations of Windows simply mask out the vector without disabling the timer. Applied, thanks. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM: kvm_vcpu_block task state race

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 05:26:06PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: So do you want to give wait_event_interruptible() a try or wait for that change until userspace never issues vcpu ioctl's to a possibly busy vcpu (and go with the patch above)? Do we have

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

2008-05-14 Thread Fabrice Bellard
Anthony Liguori wrote: One thought I had, is that it would be very nice to break up the -drive file=foo.img,if=scsi syntax within the config file. In general, I'm thinking something like: [drive] file=foo.img if=scsi or: drive { file=foo.img if=scsi } or even: drive:

[kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
This is the second release of network drivers for Windows guests running on a kvm host. The drivers are intended for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and Windows 2003. Both x86 and x64 variants are provided. kvm-61 or later is needed in the host. At the moment only binaries are available. The

[kvm-devel] Признаки обособленного подразд еления

2008-05-14 Thread Филиалы
Филиалы и обособленные подразделения Однодневный семинар / 21 мая 2008 г. / Москва Программа семинара 1. Признаки обособленного подразделения по Налоговому кодексу Российской Федерации. 2. Процедура регистрации организации в налоговых органах по месту нахождения обособленного подразделения.

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1885747 ] KVM halts, when starting Fedora8 SMP guest

2008-05-14 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1885747, was opened at 2008-02-03 23:34 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by xichencn You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=1885747group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[kvm-devel] [Reminder] kvm mailing lists moving

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
[I forgot to do this last weekend, so it's postponed to Saturday] During the upcoming Saturday, the various kvm lists will move to vger.kenel.org. This will improve responsiveness, and reduce spam and advertising. Please subscribe to the lists you are interested in as soon as possible. You

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

2008-05-14 Thread Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN)
That's very nearly YAML format[1], which is attractive because parsers are available in every major programming language, and it is still pretty human friendly. While YAML is certainly human readable, it's not very human writable IMHO. I think that a simpler format would be more appropiate

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

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Fabrice Bellard wrote: I prefer: drive.file=foo.img drive.if=scsi That doesn't support multiple drives very well. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [kvm-devel] s390 kvm_virtio.c build error

2008-05-14 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Montag, 5. Mai 2008 schrieb Avi Kivity: I can, but tell me which one. Also, the patch (Heiko's) needs a changelog entry and a signoff. Avi, as this patch is now in your queue, can you push this change --- commit eee4646877b748afbfd34d8dbe6ea9b454a65745 Author: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-14 Thread Robin Holt
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:11:22AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:32:38AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:06:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: On Thursday 08 May 2008 10:38, Robin Holt wrote: In order to invalidate the remote page table entries, we

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: KVM/IA64: Set KVM_IOAPIC_NUM_PINS to 48.

2008-05-14 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Hi, Avi This patch should be a fix for v2.6.26. Otherwise, guests can't enable networking. Xiantao From df3a290e438b3079edb3627f2fea3e1fdd85b5f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiantao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 19:44:57 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: KVM/IA64: Set

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

2008-05-14 Thread Fabrice Bellard
Avi Kivity wrote: Fabrice Bellard wrote: I prefer: drive.file=foo.img drive.if=scsi That doesn't support multiple drives very well. Right, I realized it afterwards ! I suggested it because my original plan for the configuration file was based on this syntax with a strong inspiration

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: KVM/IA64: Set KVM_IOAPIC_NUM_PINS to 48.

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Zhang, Xiantao wrote: Hi, Avi This patch should be a fix for v2.6.26. Otherwise, guests can't enable networking. Xiantao Subject: [PATCH] KVM: KVM/IA64: Set KVM_IOAPIC_NUM_PINS to 48. Guest's firmware needs the viosapic with 48 pins for ia64 guests. Applied and queued, thanks.

Re: [kvm-devel] s390 kvm_virtio.c build error

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Christian Borntraeger wrote: as this patch is now in your queue, can you push this change --- commit eee4646877b748afbfd34d8dbe6ea9b454a65745 Author: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue May 6 17:38:30 2008 +0300 s390: KVM guest: fix compile error --- soon to Linus? kvm still

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add method to send fragmented packets

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: We need to be able to send fragmented packets in KVM to avoid an extra copy in the TX path. This patch adds a qemu_sendv_packet() function to send fragemented packets. It also provides backwards compatibility for old clients that don't support the new interface.

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1958715 ] kvm-userspace failed to start linux kernel (kernel panic)

2008-05-14 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1958715, was opened at 2008-05-06 15:13 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gthouvenin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=1958715group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

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

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:26:40PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Fabrice Bellard wrote: I prefer: drive.file=foo.img drive.if=scsi That doesn't support multiple drives very well. Right, I realized it afterwards ! I suggested it because my original plan

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Avi Kivity wrote: This is the second release of network drivers for Windows guests running on a kvm host. The drivers are intended for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and Windows 2003. Both x86 and x64 variants are provided. kvm-61 or later is needed in the host. At the moment only

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

2008-05-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Fabrice Bellard wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Fabrice Bellard wrote: I prefer: drive.file=foo.img drive.if=scsi That doesn't support multiple drives very well. Right, I realized it afterwards ! I suggested it because my original plan for the configuration file was based on this syntax

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

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Brook
I suggested it because my original plan for the configuration file was based on this syntax with a strong inspiration from the OpenFirmware device tree. The idea was that the object name (drive here) had no hardcoded meaning, except for some predefined object names in order to keep a kind of

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

2008-05-14 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 14/05/2008, Anthony Liguori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I think this is pretty useful as-is. I think it also gives us a reasonable way to move forward that will keep everyone pretty happy. Here's a short example: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ~/images/linux.img

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

2008-05-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: That's very nearly YAML format[1], which is attractive because parsers are available in every major programming language, and it is still pretty human friendly. So my preference would be to go with the last option and make sure it really is YAML compliant so people

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 =

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

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:52:56PM +0300, Dor Laor wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:41 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Daniel P. Berrange wrote: That's very nearly YAML format[1], which is attractive because parsers are available in every major programming language, and it is still pretty

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

2008-05-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Paul Brook wrote: the class field is used to select the device model. Then all the other parameters are used to initialize the device model. That way it is possible to keep the compatibility with the existing options and add a provision to instanciate arbitrary new device models, such as:

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

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Wed, 14 May 2008, andrzej zaborowski wrote: What I'd love, though, but expect others will consider bloat, is that files are passed through cpp before interpreting. This will add a dependency to a developer's tool on an application that has not much to do with development for most

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Dor Laor
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:52 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: This is the second release of network drivers for Windows guests running on a kvm host. The drivers are intended for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and Windows 2003. Both x86 and x64 variants are provided.

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

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, 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 language, while remaining _very_ light (less than 200K with all libraries), and wonderfully easy to embed into C programs.

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Jerone Young
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:34 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi, before going wild with my idea, I would like to collect some comments on this approach: While doing first kernel debugging with my debug register patches for kvm, I quickly ran into the 4-breakpoints-only limitation that comes from

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

2008-05-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Dor Laor wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:41 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Please don't jump over me but I think it is worth mentioning OVF, at least for to know what's you opinions. Open Virtualization Format - http://www.vmware.com/appliances/learn/ovf.html It's xml based, supported by all

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

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Brook
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote: Paul Brook wrote: the class field is used to select the device model. Then all the other parameters are used to initialize the device model. That way it is possible to keep the compatibility with the existing options and add a provision to

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Robin Holt wrote: Are you suggesting the sending side would not need to sleep or the receiving side? One thing to realize is that most of the time (read: pretty much *always*) when we have the problem of wanting to sleep inside a spinlock, the solution is actually to

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

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:45:02AM -0500, Javier Guerra wrote: 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

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Jan Kiszka
Jerone Young wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:34 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi, before going wild with my idea, I would like to collect some comments on this approach: While doing first kernel debugging with my debug register patches for kvm, I quickly ran into the 4-breakpoints-only

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 language, while remaining _very_ light (less

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

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Wed, 14 May 2008, Javier Guerra wrote: 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

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 artificially make it complicated, and then

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Dor Laor schrieb: (...) - PV Windows (network driver) About 700Mb+-, there is currently extra copy that we need to omit. Thanks for Anthony, we just have to change the driver. - non-PV Windows What do you mean? Other fully emulated nics like e1000? It does not perform as pv but

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

2008-05-14 Thread Kelly French
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: Hi, On Wed, 14 May 2008, Javier Guerra wrote: 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

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-14 Thread Robin Holt
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:18:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008, Robin Holt wrote: Are you suggesting the sending side would not need to sleep or the receiving side? One thing to realize is that most of the time (read: pretty much *always*) when we have the problem

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Dor Laor
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:49 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Dor Laor schrieb: (...) - PV Windows (network driver) About 700Mb+-, there is currently extra copy that we need to omit. Thanks for Anthony, we just have to change the driver. - non-PV Windows What do you mean?

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Fix hw/acpi.c build w/ DEBUG enabled

2008-05-14 Thread Alex Williamson
Trivial build warning/fixes when the local DEBUG define is enabled. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/qemu/hw/acpi.c b/qemu/hw/acpi.c index c4419c4..c305702 100644 --- a/qemu/hw/acpi.c +++ b/qemu/hw/acpi.c @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static uint32_t gpe_readb(void *opaque,

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Jerone Young
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:28 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Jerone Young wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 13:34 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi, before going wild with my idea, I would like to collect some comments on this approach: While doing first kernel debugging with my debug register patches

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Robin Holt wrote: Would it be acceptable to always put a sleepable stall in even if the code path did not require the pages be unwritable prior to continuing? If we did that, I would be freed from having a pool of invalidate threads ready for XPMEM to use for that

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

2008-05-14 Thread Fabrice Bellard
Paul Brook wrote: I suggested it because my original plan for the configuration file was based on this syntax with a strong inspiration from the OpenFirmware device tree. The idea was that the object name (drive here) had no hardcoded meaning, except for some predefined object names in order

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Dor Laor wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:49 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Dor Laor schrieb: (...) - PV Windows (network driver) About 700Mb+-, there is currently extra copy that we need to omit. Thanks for Anthony, we just have to change the driver. -

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: One thing to realize is that most of the time (read: pretty much *always*) when we have the problem of wanting to sleep inside a spinlock, the solution is actually to just move the sleeping to outside the lock, and then have something else that

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:28:51 Jan Kiszka wrote: So gdb on power relies only on those few hw-breakpoints? With x86 you can perfectly run gdb (with soft BPs) in parallel with the gdbstub (currently based on hw-BPs, but the same would be true for soft-BPs inserted by the gdbstub). GDB on

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

2008-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: The problem is that the code in rmap.c try_to_umap() and friends loops over reverse maps after taking a spinlock. The mm_struct is only known after the rmap has been acccessed. This means *inside* the spinlock. So you queue them. That's what

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:09:42PM +0300, Dor Laor wrote: Do you have any performance numbers for networking to see how it compares to the real hardware? - Linux host (or: real Windows running on that host) For host you can measure yourself but for Linux guest (to host) it currently

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Jan Kiszka
Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:28:51 Jan Kiszka wrote: So gdb on power relies only on those few hw-breakpoints? With x86 you can perfectly run gdb (with soft BPs) in parallel with the gdbstub (currently based on hw-BPs, but the same would be true for soft-BPs inserted by

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Jan Kiszka
Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:10:06 Jan Kiszka wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:28:51 Jan Kiszka wrote: So gdb on power relies only on those few hw-breakpoints? With x86 you can perfectly run gdb (with soft BPs) in parallel with the gdbstub

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:10:06 Jan Kiszka wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:28:51 Jan Kiszka wrote: So gdb on power relies only on those few hw-breakpoints? With x86 you can perfectly run gdb (with soft BPs) in parallel with the gdbstub (currently based on

Re: [kvm-devel] performance with guests running 2.4 kernels (specifically RHEL3)

2008-05-14 Thread David S. Ahern
Avi Kivity wrote: Not so fast... the patch updates the flood count to 5. Can you check if a lower value still works? Also, whether updating the flood count to 5 (without the rest of the patch) works? Unconditionally bumping the flood count to 5 will likely cause a performance regression

[kvm-devel] Юридический спецкурс для бухга лтеров

2008-05-14 Thread Ответственность главного бухгалтера
Юридический спецкурс для бухгалтеров Курс ориентирован на бухгалтеров и работников финансовых служб, коммерческих директоров, желающих получить дополнительные знания в области договорного права 02 - 04 июня, Санкт - Петербург В рамках мероприятия: Иерархия нормативных правовых актов,

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:49:02 Jan Kiszka wrote: In Qemu, when exit_reason == KVM_EXIT_DEBUG, it would just need to see if that address is for a breakpoint Qemu set or not. If so, it's happy. If not, (commence handwaving) tell KVM to forward the debug interrupt to the guest. This

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

2008-05-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Anthony Liguori schrieb: (...) So, a PV network driver can do about 700Mb/s, and an emulated NIC can do about 600 Mb/s, Windows guest to host? That would be about 20% improvement? FWIW, virtio-net is much better with my patches applied. The difference between the e1000 and

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 16:06:00 Hollis Blanchard wrote: In fact, in the case of soft breakpoints, KVM doesn't even know where all the set breakpoints are. Side note: I'm retract this sentence: I wrote it before I sketched out the pseudocode, and forgot to remove it. :) -- Hollis

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ppc-devel] [RFC] Reworking KVM_DEBUG_GUEST

2008-05-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 16:11:39 Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008 16:06:00 Hollis Blanchard wrote: In fact, in the case of soft breakpoints, KVM doesn't even know where all the set breakpoints are. Side note: I'm retract this sentence: I wrote it before I sketched out

Re: [kvm-devel] Protected mode transitions and big real mode... still an issue

2008-05-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Guillaume, On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:29:11AM +0200, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008 20:05:39 +0300 Mohammed Gamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WinXP fails with the patch applied too. Ubuntu 7.10 live CD and FreeDOS don't boot but complain about instruction mov

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm trace support for ppc

2008-05-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 03:06:19 Tan, Li wrote: Hollisb, I have 2 more questions: 1. seems record won't be overwritten because current code is as following: /* * The relay channel is used in no-overwrite mode, it keeps trace of how * many times we encountered a full subbuffer, to tell

Re: [kvm-devel] pinning, tsc and apic

2008-05-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:19:24PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote: I've been digging into some of the instability we see when running larger numbers of guests at the same time. The test I'm currently using involves launching 64 1vcpu guests on an 8-way AMD box. With the latest kvm-userspace git

Re: [kvm-devel] pinning, tsc and apic

2008-05-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:19:24PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote: Hi Ryan, There are two places that attempt to use delivery mode 7: kexec crash and io_apic_64.c::check_timer(). The later will happen if the guest fails to receive PIT IRQ's for 10 ticks. If you're

Re: [kvm-devel] Automatically hibernate XP guest on suspend?

2008-05-14 Thread David Abrahams
on Sat Apr 26 2008, Avi Kivity avi-AT-qumranet.com wrote: David Abrahams wrote: If I suspend my host while running a Windows XP guest, the whole machine crashes, so I was hoping to automate hibernation of the guest OS and integrate that into my host's suspend process. Does anyone know how

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm trace support for ppc

2008-05-14 Thread Tan, Li
-Original Message- From: Hollis Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2008年5月15日 5:37 To: Tan, Li Cc: kvm-devel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: kvm trace support for ppc On Tuesday 13 May 2008 03:06:19 Tan, Li wrote: Hollisb, I have 2 more questions: 1. seems record won't be

Re: [kvm-devel] Windows PV driver for KVM

2008-05-14 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
It's working now, thanks very much! -- Yunhong Jiang Dor Laor mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:55 +0800, Jiang, Yunhong wrote: Hi, Dor, I just checked the URL and seems it is not updated still, willyou update it? Avi, since it passed regression, we can release it

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