[kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Kirk
Hi, I was able to boot and install Soarlis 10 U4 but since upgraded the host, I have issues. Host: Fedora 8 - 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE SMP CPU AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 32 bit Previously: 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 Running the standard F8 KVM kernel drivers, with either 65 or 66 userland.

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Kirk
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > KVM-65/66 has some bugs on AMD. I suggest you to degrade to KVM-64 for > stability. Also crashes (userland kvm-64, kernel F8). It is Solaris 32bit. Does the 32bit host running PAE cause any issues ? ---

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > How much memory do you have? If you are blessed with 4GB or more, this > is likely a truncation issue. I have 4GB (just upgraded from 1GB), hence running PAE else Linux is only enable to use ~3GB. By mem=2000 I assume you mean on the Host? If so, I might as well drop back t

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > > If so, I might as well drop back to non-PAE and get to use 3GB. > > If it works, this provides a clue as to what goes wrong, and we can fix > it. > > > Are these known issues? Can I do anything to help/test which might > > make it work for other people? > > Just let us know i

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > 1. Boot with 'noexec=off' on the host kernel command line > 2. Loading the kernel modules that come with kvm-66 I'll have a go at no.2, I have not had much luck compiling the modules within the constraints of a Fedora kernel. No.1 I can do tomorrow when in the same buildi

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > I do this regularly, basically you need to install kernel-devel and > that's it. Yes, that is very easy isn't it. Oops to my stupidity. I've got it built and will give it a go tomorrow and report back on each test case.

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > Actually kvm is affected by pae: it enables nx support. Please try > (separately) > > 1. Boot with 'noexec=off' on the host kernel command line 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE noexec=off: Using normal F8 modules qemu-kvm dies in the same way > 2. Loading the kernel modules that come

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-18 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > > Yes, that is very easy isn't it. Oops to my stupidity. I've got it built > > and will give it a go tomorrow and report back on each test case. > > Please don't flame on kvm-devel, even if the flames are self-directed. Er, OK... --

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-65/66 bug with Solaris 10 U4 ?

2008-04-19 Thread Ian Kirk
Ian Kirk wrote: > 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE noexec=off: > > Using normal F8 modules > qemu-kvm dies in the same way > > > 2. Loading the kernel modules that come with kvm-66 > > Against 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 it works. 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE with kvm-66 module seems to work OK. I gu

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function

2008-04-22 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > For mass storage, we should follow the SCSI model with a single device > serving multiple disks, similar to what you suggest. Not sure if the > device should have a single queue or one queue per disk. Don't you just end up re-implementing SCSI then, at which point you might a

[kvm-devel] Vmware ESX under KVM - guest GPF in installer

2008-05-13 Thread Ian Kirk
Hi, I wanted to try running Vmware ESX without the effort of finding a physical machine. Googling around I found that it is possible to run ESX under other hypervisors/emulators, e.g. Vmware Workstation. So I thought i'd give KVM a go. Using kvm-66 on 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE, the (mostly text mode) in

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-1

2008-03-18 Thread Ian Kirk
Avi Kivity wrote: > This is the first release of network drivers for Windows guests running > on a kvm host. Any plans for Windows Server and block support? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.