Re: [libvirt] Passing -no-kvm-irqchip to KVM/QEMU guests

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Lalancette
Garry Dolley wrote: Hi Jim, Thanks for this suggestion, it worked like a charm! Now, while this is still a hacky way to solve this problem, would anyone be interested in seeing a patch that would either: 1) Allow one to append arbitrary command line arguments to the emulator, like:

Re: [libvirt] Passing -no-kvm-irqchip to KVM/QEMU guests

2009-09-15 Thread Garry Dolley
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 09:33:01PM -0400, Jim Paris wrote: Garry Dolley wrote: Dear libvirt, Is there a way to tell a KVM/QEMU guest managed by libvirt to start with the -no-kvm-irqchip argument? I have some FreeBSD 7 guests with timing issues, and if I try to start the VMs

[libvirt] Passing -no-kvm-irqchip to KVM/QEMU guests

2009-09-13 Thread Garry Dolley
Dear libvirt, Is there a way to tell a KVM/QEMU guest managed by libvirt to start with the -no-kvm-irqchip argument? I have some FreeBSD 7 guests with timing issues, and if I try to start the VMs manually with -no-kvm-irqchip, the timing issues go away (the only known workaround right now).

Re: [libvirt] Passing -no-kvm-irqchip to KVM/QEMU guests

2009-09-13 Thread Jim Paris
Garry Dolley wrote: Dear libvirt, Is there a way to tell a KVM/QEMU guest managed by libvirt to start with the -no-kvm-irqchip argument? I have some FreeBSD 7 guests with timing issues, and if I try to start the VMs manually with -no-kvm-irqchip, the timing issues go away (the only known