Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-12-04 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
On 11/29/2011 08:36 PM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 08:58 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: Hi, Rozenfeld,Thanks,got it! And do you know whether there are some sufficient test tools (such as IOmeter) to test the virtio driver performance? IoMeter is good. But you

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-29 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 08:58 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: Hi, Rozenfeld,Thanks,got it! And do you know whether there are some sufficient test tools (such as IOmeter) to test the virtio driver performance? IoMeter is good. But you also might be interested in SQLIOSim, database

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-29 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 10:43 +0800, Mark Wu wrote: Total physical memory on Windows will always be the same, because we don't hot-plug/unplug physical memory. Balloon driver works with non-paged pool memory instead. So, every time you inflate or deflate balloon in your system, you should

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-28 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
Hi, Rozenfeld,Thanks,got it! And do you know whether there are some sufficient test tools (such as IOmeter) to test the virtio driver performance? On 11/25/2011 02:42 PM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 09:59 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: Hi,all Thanks,Frenkel.The

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-28 Thread Mark Wu
Total physical memory on Windows will always be the same, because we don't hot-plug/unplug physical memory. Balloon driver works with non-paged pool memory instead. So, every time you inflate or deflate balloon in your system, you should see Available memory is changing, while physical will

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-24 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
Hi,all Thanks,Frenkel.The test application of the balloon must be run as admin. But I found 2 problems(question) this week when testing windows guest drivers: * If only virtio serial driver installed,the virtio serial test app can not enumerate/find the virtio serial device,

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-24 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 09:59 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: Hi,all Thanks,Frenkel.The test application of the balloon must be run as admin. But I found 2 problems(question) this week when testing windows guest drivers: * If only virtio serial driver installed,the virtio

[Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-21 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
Hi, Recently,I am testing windows guest driver on Win7 and WinXP(32bit) with the latest windows guest driver development source. Download from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/ virtio-blk: It seems OK both on Win7 and WinXP,the r/w performance is

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-21 Thread Arkady Frenkel
On 11/21/2011 10:39 AM, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: Hi, Recently,I am testing windows guest driver on Win7 and WinXP(32bit) with the latest windows guest driver development source. Download from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/ virtio-blk: It seems OK