[pve-devel] New iSCSI Multipath howto

2012-09-04 Thread Dietmar Maurer
Hi all, we just updated the wiki page: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ISCSI_Multipath Please review. Comments are appreciated ;-) - Dietmar ___ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel

Re: [pve-devel] create snapshots

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
>>The idea is to save the state into an external file. That will work for all >>storage >>types. Great :) so it'll work for rbd or nexenta :) >>Sorry, I do not understand what you mean? When I have done tests with savevm, the qmp socket timeout each time during the vmstate save. It's also t

Re: [pve-devel] create snapshots

2012-09-04 Thread Dietmar Maurer
> what is the statefile argument ? > I thinked that the state was saved inside the (first) disk. (so vmstate is > snapshoted and we can rollback it easily) Or it's for doing some tests ? The idea is to save the state into an external file. That will work for all storage types. > I don't know if

Re: [pve-devel] create snapshots

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
Ok, I have tested it, snapshot of drive works fine, But I don't understand how the vm state is saved. what is the statefile argument ? I thinked that the state was saved inside the (first) disk. (so vmstate is snapshoted and we can rollback it easily) Or it's for doing some tests ? I don't know i

Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH] add qemu guest agent client

2012-09-04 Thread Dietmar Maurer
> chardev: backend "qga_proxy" not found > > so it's not implemented yet. > (I don't know if it's on the qemu roamap, I didn't find any info) > So Do you need to implemented the current procotol ? > (We need guest agent to freeze filesystem for snapshots I just want to avoid unnecessary work. So

Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH] add qemu guest agent client

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
just tested with -chardev qga_proxy,id=qga0 chardev: backend "qga_proxy" not found so it's not implemented yet. (I don't know if it's on the qemu roamap, I didn't find any info) So Do you need to implemented the current procotol ? (We need guest agent to freeze filesystem for snapshots - Ma

Re: [pve-devel] create snapshots

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
I'll read the code this afternoon, thanks ! - Mail original - De: "Dietmar Maurer" À: "Alexandre DERUMIER" Cc: pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com Envoyé: Mardi 4 Septembre 2012 14:22:12 Objet: RE: [pve-devel] create snapshots I just uploaded a patch - I consider that experimental - I have

Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH] add qemu guest agent client

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
Oh I miss that ! " When QAPI-based QMP is available (somewhere around the QEMU 0.16 timeframe), a different host-side invocation that doesn't involve access to the guest agent outside of QMP will be used. Something like: qemu \ ... -chardev qga_proxy,id=qga0 \ -device virtio-serial \ -devi

Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH] add qemu guest agent client

2012-09-04 Thread Dietmar Maurer
Documentation states that we can do all those thing via qmp in future! So why do we want to add all that code now? > -Original Message- > From: pve-devel-boun...@pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-devel- > boun...@pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Alexandre Derumier > Sent: Dienstag, 04. September 20

Re: [pve-devel] create snapshots

2012-09-04 Thread Dietmar Maurer
I just uploaded a patch - I consider that experimental - I have not done any tests so far. https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=7378b84a5f739a19b6ba4210598b301b5630b109 What do you think - will that fit our needs? - Dietmar ___

Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH 3/3] livemigrate : activate xbzrle cache

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
I have tried to tunned the cachesize dynamically, but it doesn't help. This is strange, as xbzrle should help for vm with intensive memory workload. (and it seem to take more time ) I have send a message to the qemu mailing, waiting for a response - Mail original - De: "Dietm

Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH 3/3] livemigrate : activate xbzrle cache

2012-09-04 Thread Dietmar Maurer
> after which time have you seen the endless running xbzrle? Did the > remaining bytes size raise again in your case? yes. I guess we should test again when final 1.2 is out. ___ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cg

Re: [pve-devel] lsi boot

2012-09-04 Thread Martin Maurer
> -Original Message- > From: pve-devel-boun...@pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-devel- > boun...@pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Alexandre DERUMIER > Sent: Dienstag, 04. September 2012 08:51 > To: Dietmar Maurer > Cc: pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com > Subject: Re: [pve-devel] lsi boot > > yes. It seem

[pve-devel] [PATCH] add qemu guest agent client

2012-09-04 Thread Alexandre Derumier
This implement qemu guest agent client. I Have take the qmp client code and try to adapt it. We cannot pass id in the quest agent client,so I always execute { "execute": "guest-sync", "arguments": { "id": sequenceid } } before each command exemple: sending commands --- { "execute":