Re: Xen & VMI?

2007-03-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
lot of things that HVM does not need. Since KVM and Xen HVM have the least requirements in term of guest modifications, they are probably the obviously places to start. Regards, Anthony Liguori It would at least give us a better idea of the scope of the problem. But IMHO it's a *hug

Re: Xen & VMI?

2007-03-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
Nakajima, Jun wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So in the end you would still have two different hypervisor ABI's, the VMI ROM just hides that. oh, but that way i have cleverly pushed the pro

Re: Xen & VMI?

2007-03-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
about. Fine, so lets move kvm paravirtualitzation into vmi too (proof of concept code by Anthony Liguori exists) and kill one more item on the (linux) QA test matrix? (just following your arguments, not that I'm confident it would actually help reducing QA effort). yes - although obviou

Re: [RFC] Use para_fill instead of vmi_get_function for APIC ops

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Zachary Amsden wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Hi Zach, It seems to me that the APIC paravirt_ops should be filled by para_fill() instead of vmi_get_function(). vmi_get_function() returns a nop when the relocation type is NONE. para_fill() leaves the native code in place. The native

Re: [RFC] Use para_fill instead of vmi_get_function for APIC ops

2007-02-26 Thread Anthony Liguori
Zachary Amsden wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Hi Zach, It seems to me that the APIC paravirt_ops should be filled by para_fill() instead of vmi_get_function(). vmi_get_function() returns a nop when the relocation type is NONE. para_fill() leaves the native code in place. The native

[RFC] Use para_fill instead of vmi_get_function for APIC ops

2007-02-26 Thread Anthony Liguori
. attached patch is just to illustrate the point. Has not even been compile tested. Regards, Anthony Liguori --- linux-2.6.21-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c~ 2007-02-20 22:32:30.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c 2007-02-26 17:58:18.0 -0600 @@ -852,9 +852,9 @@ #endif

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 10/13] KVM: Wire up hypercall handlers to a central arch-independent location

2007-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
I have my doubts that a paravirt disk driver will significantly out perform scsi emulation. Regards, Anthony Liguori - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: KVM ... bypass BIOS check for VT?

2007-01-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
ne to work around it. Sorry. Contact Lenovo and ask for a BIOS update. Regards, Anthony Liguori /proc/cpuinfo shows "VMX". Another question ... how to enable "mouse" in KVM? Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Re: [kvm-devel] [announce] [patch] KVM paravirtualization for Linux

2007-01-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
en a PIO operation would be a bit cleaner IMHO. PIO exits tend to be fast in VT/SVM so that's an added benefit. Regards, Anthony Liguori Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm pleased to announce the first release of paravirtualized KVM (Linux under Linux), which includes support for the hardwar

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