On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:54:15AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Mon, 05/20 09:49, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:41:06AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:03:34PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
CURL library API has changed, the current curl driver
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:16:40AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
Changes from v3:
01, 06, 07: Add QLIST_INIT in qemu_open to initialize each list.
07: Move clean up for s-acbs from later patch to here. Use qemu_aio_relase
instead of g_free on acb.
Fix use-after-free bug. [Rich]
This
://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
From 0d42755f009c142b85fb07a06a41cee6c7ea68ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:11:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] block/curl.c: Refuse to open the handle for writes.
---
block/curl.c | 4
1 file changed, 4
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
---
block/curl.c | 4
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index b8935fd..f1e302b 100644
--- a/block/curl.c
+++ b/block/curl.c
@@ -406,6 +406,10 @@ static int curl_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options,
int
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:51:16AM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
This is actually interesting. Does the QEMU nbd server support multiple
readers?
Yes. qemu-nbd has a -e/--shared=N option which appears to do
exactly what it says in the man page.
$ guestfish -N fs exit
$ ls -lh test1.img
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
When this VMSD was introduced it's version fields were set to
sizeof(I6300State), making them essentially random from build to build,
version to version.
To fix this, we lock in a high version id and low minimum version id to
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:32:37PM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.comwrote:
Run up to two extra guestfish instances, with the same result. The
fourth guestfish instance hangs at the 'run' command until one of the
first
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 03:38:33PM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.comwrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:32:37PM -0400, Wolfgang Richter wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
wrote
v5 tested and works for me.
Attached is the test script I'm using.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
I'm pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs (1.22).
libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
machine disk images. http://libguestfs.org/
This release represents 5 months of development and has many
significant new features including:
- access remote
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:42:37AM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
On 05/23/2013 05:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'm pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs (1.22).
Great work!
==
$ ./autogen.sh make -j 7 \
time make -k check LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:36:55PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
Changes from v5:
05: Rename bs to s for BDRVCURLState.
06: Use int64_t for offsets.
Fix printf format string.
Move introducing of use_count to 07.
07: Drop explicit cast.
Use int64_t for offsets.
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:19:25PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote:
Fix these warnings from cppcheck:
hw/display/cirrus_vga.c:2603:
hw/sd/sd.c:348:
hw/timer/exynos4210_mct.c:1033:
target-arm/translate.c:9886:
target-s390x/mem_helper.c:518:
target-unicore32/translate.c:1936:
style: Consecutive
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:25:21AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Fri, 05/24 09:07, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:36:55PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
Changes from v5:
05: Rename bs to s for BDRVCURLState.
06: Use int64_t for offsets.
Fix printf format string
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 03:30:49PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
Sure, I'm using the attached test script.
I used your script to test, but I don't see errors as you posted,
attached the output. The only difference is that I put libguestfs in
different directory with you and I'm using a linux
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:47:59AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'm not sure if a Windows guest is somehow necessary to show the
errors. I'll retest with a Linux guest and get back to you about
that.
Reproducible with Linux guest (remotely over slow Wifi).
Also I'm testing against
After discussion off-list, I've gone back and retested versions 4, 5,
and 6 of this patch.
I'm using the test script previously attached.
I'm using libguestfs (ada94eb9) curl (ba9a) qemu (6a4e177114)
all the latest from git.
I'm using a 6 GB Windows XP guest. The web server is remote,
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:35:20AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'm continuing to investigate.
Some more data points:
v6 patch, with my laptop plugged directly into the gigabit ethernet
switch which is connected to the web server:
- Worked perfectly 5 times in a row.
v6 patch, with my
W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 12:30:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] curl: Increase block timeout.
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
---
block/curl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index 3e330b6
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:07:25AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Tue, 05/28 12:32, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
This fixes the obvious bug.
Thanks for figuring out this. Mainline had this 5s timeout so I kept it,
but you don't experience this bug, right? Since master doesn't setup a
timer
W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:25:46PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
v7:
13: Added:
curl: change timeout to 30 seconds
I tested this against:
(1) HTTP to Apache server over slow but local wifi.
(2) HTTP to a remote ISO (on another continent).
Test (1) is fine.
Test (2) gives plenty of I/O
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:54:42AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
The weird thing is it doesn't work for me, I'm sure something is wrong
with current upstream, although not totally broken.
$./qemu-io http://localhost/vm/arch.raw -c 'read -v 0 512'
(stuck here forever, no output)
This doesn't
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 03:47:23PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Fri, 06/07 08:27, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:54:42AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
The weird thing is it doesn't work for me, I'm sure something is wrong
with current upstream, although not totally broken
This simple patch avoids a segfault in qemu if the user tries to open
a curl disk for writing.
This was previously part of Fam Zheng's curl patch series, but it
stands alone and we shouldn't forget about it.
Rich.
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng f...@redhat.com
---
block/curl.c | 4
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index b8935fd..f1e302b 100644
--- a/block/curl.c
+++ b
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng f...@redhat.com
---
block/curl.c | 6 ++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index b8935fd..b634ccf 100644
--- a/block/curl.c
+++ b
v2:
- Use qerror_report to report an error.
- Return -EROFS instead of -ENOTSUP.
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
(Found by Kamil Dudka)
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
---
block/curl.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index b634ccf..bf31efe 100644
--- a/block/curl.c
+++ b/block/curl.c
@@ -453,7
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:34:52PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
10.06.2013 17:19, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
(Found by Kamil Dudka)
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
---
block/curl.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
(Found by Kamil Dudka)
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Cc: Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru
---
block/curl.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index b634ccf..8d0d45d 100644
--- a/block
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:56:30AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Changes since v7:
- fsync (ie. bdrv_co_flush_to_disk) is now supported, *if* you have
the following patches to libssh2 and OpenSSH:
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798
(OpenSSH: accepted, but not upstream
/vhdx.c
+
+VDI
+M: Stefan Weil s...@weilnetz.de
+S: Maintained
+F: block/vdi.c
+
+iSCSI
+M: Ronnie Sahlberg ronniesahlb...@gmail.com
+M: Paolo Bonzini pbonz...@redhat.com
+S: Supported
+F: block/iscsi.c
+
+SSH
+M: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
+S: Supported
+F: block/ssh.c
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 09:19:42PM +0100, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@redhat.com wrote:
There are a number of contributors who maintain block drivers (image
formats and protocols). They should be listed in the MAINTAINERS file
so that
I don't know if there is a more appropriate place to ask about
ARM / virtio questions. If there is please let me know.
I'm trying to get qemu to boot an ARM appliance. Everything works up
to the point where the kernel loads virtio drivers. The disks never
show up. The full qemu command line
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:50:02PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 5 September 2013 22:41, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote:
I don't know if there is a more appropriate place to ask about
ARM / virtio questions. If there is please let me know.
I'm trying to get qemu to boot
Have you tried virtio-serial on ARM at all? The port never shows up.
Do all virtio-* devices need to be ported specially to virtio-mmio or
should they (in theory at least) just work?
Is there a command one can use in the guest to list virtio-mmio
devices, similar to lspci?
Are virtio-mmio
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 09:49:24AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 6 September 2013 19:01, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote:
Have you tried virtio-serial on ARM at all? The port never shows up.
I don't think I've tested the serial-device part of it, but I've
used it to provide
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 09:49:24AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 6 September 2013 19:01, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote:
Have you tried virtio-serial on ARM at all? The port never shows up.
I don't think I've tested the serial-device part of it, but I've
used it to provide
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:47:47PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
02.09.2013 17:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Thanks, applied to the trivial-patches queue.
Thanks :-) I case you were wondering
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:52:44AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 26.07.2013 um 20:39 hat Ian Main geschrieben:
This patch adds sync modes on top of the work that Stefan Hajnoczi has done.
These patches apply on kevin/block.
Hopefully all is in order as this is my first QEMU patch. Many
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 05:36:28PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Mon, 07/29 10:02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:52:44AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 26.07.2013 um 20:39 hat Ian Main geschrieben:
This patch adds sync modes on top of the work that Stefan Hajnoczi has
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 06:16:48PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
Ian's patches are in master, on which I already rebased the first. I can
rebase the other one for you if you feel like to test it too.
No that's fine, thanks. I just thought Ian had more patches which
were not upstream, but if they're
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
The error on armv7hl was:
block/iscsi.c: In function ‘is_request_lun_aligned’:
block/iscsi.c:251:26: error: format ‘%ld’ expects argument of type ‘long int’,
but argument 3 has type ‘int64_t’ [-Werror=format=]
iscsilun
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
The error on armv7hl was:
block/iscsi.c: In function ‘is_request_lun_aligned’:
block/iscsi.c:251:26: error: format ‘%ld’ expects argument of type ‘long int’,
but argument 3 has type ‘int64_t’ [-Werror=format=]
iscsilun
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
The error on armv7hl was:
block/iscsi.c: In function ‘is_request_lun_aligned’:
block/iscsi.c:251:26: error: format ‘%ld’ expects argument of type ‘long int’,
but argument 3 has type ‘int64_t’ [-Werror=format=]
iscsilun
It's quite exciting the virtio-mmio made it into qemu. Are extra
guest kernel components needed too? (I'm using 3.9.9-302.fc19.armv7hl
but could try a later kernel)
Anyway, I tried to get it to work, but can't quite work out the qemu
command line. So far I have:
$
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:01:11PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 31 July 2013 22:56, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote:
It's quite exciting the virtio-mmio made it into qemu. Are extra
guest kernel components needed too? (I'm using 3.9.9-302.fc19.armv7hl
but could try a later
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:32:14AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 31 July 2013 23:45, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote:
~/d/qemu/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm \
-m 512 -M vexpress-a9 -machine kernel_irqchip=on \
The combination of 'vexpress-a9' and kernel_irqchip=on
don't make
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:58:15AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
Unfortunately at this point you run into the classic
issue of trying to get an ARM kernel running, which
is that a huge class of config errors all have the
failure mode just sits there with no serial output.
This is remarkably
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:09:23PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
+if (real_size = strlen(accept_len)
What's accept_len? This patch gives me a couple of compile errors:
block/curl.c: In function ‘curl_header_cb’:
block/curl.c:120:9: error: ‘real_size’ undeclared (first use in this function)
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 07:02:00PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Mon, 06/17 11:54, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:09:23PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
+if (real_size = strlen(accept_len)
What's accept_len? This patch gives me a couple of compile errors:
Oops
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 01:39:11PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
* ssh - currently has_zero_init = 1 (is this correct?)
[...]
It might be possible that the correct value depends on the backend on
the server side for some protocols - for example, I think for SSH it
depends on whether you
From: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
If the remote is a regular file, set it to true (ie. reads of
uninitialized areas in a newly created file will return zeroes).
If we can't prove that, return false (a safe default).
Tested by adding a debugging print statement [not part of this commit
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 07:47:47AM +0530, Shehbaz Jaffer wrote:
I want to determine the amount of screen activity taking place on VGA
monitor/ Screen for different applications (eg. playing vlc video, normal
typing.)
When I do not start the X server, I can easily determine the screen
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:52:34PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
+/* save default */
A minor thing, but s/save/safe/ :-)
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:00:13PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Markus Armbruster arm...@redhat.com writes:
When I try -device isa-applesmc -device isa-applesmc, I get
WARNING: Using AppleSMC with invalid key
qemu: hardware error: register_ioport_read: invalid opaque
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Or a PCI bridge to wire up more PCI buses, so we raise the max limit for
any type of device we emulate.
Break the 29/30/31 virtio-blk limit ... please!
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:57:36PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 10/14/2010 04:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Or a PCI bridge to wire up more PCI buses, so we raise the max limit for
any type of device we emulate.
Break
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:59:36PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
Once we have -trace events=..., defining the list of active
tracepoints before starting qemu will be trivial (e.g. via a config
file). Of course, this requires that all tracepoints are built-in...
Sorry that I've not been following
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:20:27AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:29:51PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:59:36PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
Once we have -trace events=..., defining the list of active
tracepoints before starting qemu
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:39:03PM +, Blue Swirl wrote:
Thanks, applied.
Wait! This patch is incomplete.
I already posted a complete patch already some months ago (twice) but
it was ignored both times:
http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg42716.html
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:59:59AM +, Blue Swirl wrote:
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
wrote:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:39:03PM +, Blue Swirl wrote:
Thanks, applied.
Wait! This patch is incomplete.
I already posted a complete patch
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 05:25:26PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
softfloat.h's int64 type has least-width semantics,
but this doesn't seem intended here, so use plain int64_t.
v3:
* Split off.
Cc: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber andreas.faer...@web.de
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 01:51:22PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 18.12.2010 um 17:47 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 05:25:26PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
softfloat.h's int64 type has least-width semantics,
but this doesn't seem intended here, so use plain int64_t
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 04:41:03PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Like this?
upstream qemu | default |-enable-kvm
+---+---
KVM available | disabled | enabled
KVM unavailable | disabled |fail
qemu-kvm| default |-enable-kvm| -no-kvm
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 04:00:32PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Markus, any idea when we might get the -accel option appearing in
released versions of qemu/KVM?
Sorry, I thought this email wasn't going out to a public list. I
should be more careful next time.
I'll say instead: We really
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:27:17AM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
Windows 7 KVM install runs unbelievably fast on SL 6 ( alpha 3) vs F14 with
the
most recent libvirt stuff :
Boris can you help me to parse this ...
SL6 = Scientific Linux 6?
And you're saying that Windows 7 is much faster on
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:39:39PM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
Newer virt-manager versions also allow setting this in the UI.
I just set IDE Disk1 cashe mode none before install.
I thought you said they were using virtio?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
You shouldn't use local files (esp. not qcow2) for performance
testing.
What does it look like if you use an LV for disk?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:17:42PM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
disk type='block' device='disk'
driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/
This one (SL6) has cache=none, but the Fedora 14 XML you posted
does not.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:15:05AM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
Please,
view thread.
I've read every part of the thread(s). You don't make it easy
to follow what you're talking about.
I would suggest:
(1) Organize your thoughts and experiments logically.
(2) When you have done (1), post a
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:23:40PM -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
getfile() is confusingly named however, it's really just a means to
peek at a text file like /proc/meminfo.
You might as well reuse the libguestfs API here because you get the
benefit of all the code that's been written, all the
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:08:09PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
You might as well reuse the libguestfs API here because you get the
benefit of all the code that's been written, all the tools on top, and
a far more comprehensive API that would take you another 2 years to
implement.
To put
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:26:09PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 01/24/2011 04:20 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:08:09PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
You might as well reuse the libguestfs API here because you get the
benefit of all the code that's been written
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:40:05PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
BTW, how dependent is guestfsd on the guest that libguestfs uses? I
wasn't even aware that it could be used outside of that context.
The daemon is compiled separately -- separate ./configure, make, etc.
You can run it on its own.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:12:15AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
How much infrastructure does guestfd depend on within the guest? Do
you need a full install with all of the bells and whistles or does
it degrade cleanly when certain tools aren't available?
On Linux these are the libraries,
I posted my thoughts about how this could work here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-January/msg00066.html
Rich.
PS. You don't need to be a subscriber to post to that list -- I
manually triage any messages sent by non-subscribers.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:25:12PM +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:58 +0100, jes.soren...@redhat.com wrote:
From: Jes Sorensen jes.soren...@redhat.com
Hi
This is a first attempt to add fsfreeze support to virtagent. The idea
is for the guest agent to walk
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:04:47PM +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:04 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
There are some experimental patches to libguestfs to do live
filesystem and partition manipulations now:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 04:36:11PM +, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
Occassionally a commit that breaks the build gets merged into
qemu.git/master. Build testing manually across all host platforms is
not feasible for most developers. Remember we cover 32- and 64-bit
x86 Linux, Windows, and
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:26:10AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws writes:
On 07/26/2010 02:19 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
[...]
Regardless, outside of Windows users qemu will mostly be consumed
via distribution branches, with different levels of backport
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:47:53PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:33:33AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 08/02/2010 11:11 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
Load the bootsplash.jpg file into fw_cfg if it is found in the roms
directory.
Sorry, I should have provided
qemu compiled from today's git. Using the following command line:
$qemudir/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L $qemudir/pc-bios \
-drive file=/dev/null,if=virtio \
-enable-kvm \
-nodefaults \
-nographic \
-serial stdio \
-m 500 \
-no-reboot \
-no-hpet \
-net
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:33:02PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:13:06PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
qemu compiled from today's git. Using the following command line:
$qemudir/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L $qemudir/pc-bios \
-drive file=/dev
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:37:14PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:10:00PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I can't see anything about this in the kernel changelog. Can you
point me to the commit or the key phrase to look for?
7972995b0c346de76
Thanks - I see
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:51:02AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
If menu=off, it probably just shouldn't display. I assume
libguestfs is passing menu=off...
We don't actually, but it is a tremendously good idea so I'll add it,
thanks :-)
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:54:12PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:51:02AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
If menu=off, it probably just shouldn't display. I assume
libguestfs is passing menu=off...
We don't actually, but it is a tremendously good idea so I'll
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:19:39PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 08/03/2010 03:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. I'll repost my DMA-like fw-cfg patch
once I've rebased it and done some more testing. This huge regression
for a common operation (implementing -initrd
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:38:25PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
The time will only continue to grow as you add features and as the
distro bloats naturally.
Much better to create it once and only update it if some dependent
file changes (basically the current on-the-fly code + save a list of
-by: Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com
---
hw/fw_cfg.c | 37 ++-
hw/fw_cfg.h | 20 --
pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot.S | 11 +-
pc-bios/optionrom/optionrom.h | 43
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:10:18PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
-kernel and -initrd is a developer's interface intended to make life
easier for users that use qemu to develop kernels. It was not
intended as a high performance DMA engine. Neither was the firmware
_configuration_ interface. That
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:39:43AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Let's be fair. I think we've all agreed to adjust the fw_cfg
interface to implement DMA. The only requirement was that the DMA
operation not be triggered from a single port I/O but rather based
on a polling operation which
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:48:17PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 08/03/2010 07:44 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
It's not a good path to follow. Tomorrow we'll need to load 300MB
initrds and we'll have to rework this yet again. Meanwhile the
kernel and virtio support demand loading of any image size
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:44:49PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 08/03/2010 07:28 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I have posted a small patch which makes this 650x faster without
appreciable complication.
It doesn't appear to support live migration, or hiding the feature
for -M older.
AFAICT
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:58:10PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
Richard, can you test kvm.git
master? it already contains one fix and we plan to add more.
Yup, I will ...
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming blog:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:22:22PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 08/03/2010 10:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:43:39PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
libguestfs does not depend on an x86 architectural feature.
qemu-system-x86_64 emulates a PC, and PCs don't have -kernel
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
Why do we need to transfer roms? These are devices on the memory
bus or pci bus, it just needs to be there at the right address.
Boot splash should just be another rom as it would be on a real
system.
Just like the initrd?
Rich.
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:54:35AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 08/04/2010 01:06 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
Why do we need to transfer roms? These are devices on the memory
bus or pci bus, it just needs to be there at the right
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:52:23PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 08/04/2010 12:24 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Just like the initrd?
There isn't enough address space for a 100MB initrd in ROM.
Because of limits of the original PC, sure, where you had to fit
everything in 0xa-0xf
1 - 100 of 1226 matches
Mail list logo
