[Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

2005-09-14 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
. -- -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer'[EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: Why do musicians

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

2005-09-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
? if you're running without kqemu, please retry with kqemu. As for Windows 2000 guest installation, please use the win2000 hack parameter (running the command qemu alone should show you the parameter) Thanks, Hetz On 9/15/05, Troy Benjegerdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] IDE busmaster DMA support

2005-09-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:48:25PM -0400, John Coiner wrote: Hi, Here's another patch to enable IDE DMA: http://people.brandeis.edu/~jcoiner/qemu_idedma/qemu_dma_patch.html This patch, like Juergen Lock's earlier patch from which it is derived, replaces the virtual PIIX3 IDE

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] non-blocking disk IO

2005-10-03 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:41:46AM -0400, John Coiner wrote: Magnus, I don't think the Windows 2000 install hack will ever be obsolete. The installer assumes that a hard disk will take nonzero time to read some data. QEMU always services a read in zero-guest-time. (With the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] non-blocking disk IO

2005-10-03 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
If you anyway plan on having Posix AIO support then go for the Posix AIO interface. The performance reasons why Linux AIO exists is very unlikely to be an issue to qemu as you need to be quite I/O intensive to see any performance difference. Ideally, we should be able to use a Posix AIO

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] non-blocking disk IO

2005-10-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:16:18PM -0400, John Coiner wrote: Troy Benjegerdes wrote: I am also haveing trouble getting a fresh win2k install under qemu to actually be able to run windows update. I had to download and install Win2k SP4, then Win2k SP4 Hotfixes, and also an IE6 upgrade

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] make '-smb $HOME' work

2005-10-08 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel -- -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer'[EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked me why I work on this free (http

Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC patch status?

2005-10-08 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:29:27PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: Hi, On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Iain McFarlane wrote: VNC support has now been added to cvs Am I missing something? I don't see it. Furthermore, the main problem still prevails: There is no sane way to get the mouse

Re: [Qemu-devel] build problems with linux usb support?

2006-03-22 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:55:21AM -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: The only think I can track down so far is that BITS_PER_LONG is only defined in /usr/include/asm-x86_64/types.h if __KERNEL__ is also set. What other linux

[Qemu-devel] USB Tablet Emulation + VNC patch..

2006-04-19 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:23:05PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I spent some time cleaning this all up. The following integrates Brad's patches and the patch from http://gnome.dnsalias.net/patches/qemu-hidmousexp.patch It adds a new emulated USB device that reports

Re: [Qemu-devel] -kernel-kqemu

2006-04-19 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:01:34PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: Jim C. Brown wrote: -kernel-kqemu virtualizes ring 0 code. So it basically makes qemu do what VMware does. IIRC someone reported a 33% speedup with the new option. That was me. That was a 33% speedup on win2k startup

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -win2k-hack performance+DMA support

2006-04-19 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:03:53PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: Attached is a patch which greatly speeds up disk writes when using -win2k-hack to install Windows 2000. It only delays every 16th interrupt, which after rigorous testing is still enough to overcome the

[Qemu-devel] current CVS + kqemu + win2kpro problems?

2006-04-20 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
? -- -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer'[EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do

Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC terminal server?

2006-04-21 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:12:07PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: Samuel Hunt wrote: It occurs to me that this program would make an excellent basis for a VNC terminal server. [...] If you use the vnc patch you kinda get a large part of this already. Major issue is still mouse synch, but to

Re: [Qemu-devel] USB Tablet Emulation + VNC patch..

2006-04-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Now, does anyone have instructions on how to get Win2k installed and updated to the latest set of security patches? I can get service pack 4 installed, but running windowsupdate seems to never work right. If I run it up with -win2k-hack then windowsupdate works fine.. Here is what I did

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 2000 issues questions

2006-04-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:16:17PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'm sorry to bring this issues back from the dead: * Full disk issues * Service pack issues I Do know that both these issues have been dealt before, but yet, there is no fix from the QEMU application

Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch for kqemu-1.3.0pre5 on Fedora Core 4 x86_64

2006-04-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:50:16AM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote: Well, there is a change log in the archive and here it is: version 1.3.0pre6: - compile fix for Linux kernel version = 2.6.16 - better null LDT handling (aka Plan9 and ReactOS bug) - moved monitor code to another address

Re: [Qemu-devel] gnu-c99-math.h file

2006-04-25 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:04:33PM -0500, Chris Bagwell wrote: I just upgraded to current CVS to get all the changes submitted today. The solaris port commits seems to have added a #include gnu-c99-math.h file to fpu/softfloat-native.h. This file doesn't exist on my Fedora Core 5 system

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] VNC display support for QEMU

2006-04-30 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 03:03:55AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: Hi, On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Anthony Liguori wrote: One thing you may notice is that RealVNC has some issues with being disconnected. This is because it likes to switch from 8bit to 32bit depths automatically at startup.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] VNC display support for QEMU

2006-04-30 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Where 1 is the first display (port 5901). This syntax may change in the near future to support binding to a particular interface. It's very useful to use an absolute mouse with VNC as the relative support is quite poor. It may be useful to adapt the libvncserver patch's calibration

[Qemu-devel] Feature request: -hda image file locks, and warnings for readonly

2006-05-01 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
never got any sort of error indication out of qemu that the writes had been failing. -- -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer'[EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked me why I work on this free (http

Re: [Qemu-devel] vnc patch

2006-05-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
-- -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer'[EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems

[Qemu-devel] ppc32 linux host compile failure

2006-05-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Can someone educate me on what might be wrong here? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/scratch/troy/qemu-cvs-patched$ gcc-3.4 --version gcc-3.4 (GCC) 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/scratch/troy/qemu-cvs-patched$ ld --version GNU ld version 2.16.91 20060118 Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU 0.8.1 and vnc

2006-05-11 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:06:20AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: Ben Taylor wrote: I'm seeing quite a few bugs on Qemu 0.8.1 with the vnc feature 1) Sparc based system comes up in distored colors (foreground of a Damn Small linux iso comes up in yellow, instead of white) This is a

Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images

2006-05-12 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:30:45AM -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: Hello. Attached is a C file (and small patch) to add support for multi-file raw images to QEMU. The rationale (for me at least) is as follows: I use rsync to backup my home directory. The act of starting up QEMU changes a 20GB

[Qemu-devel] VNC cross-endian failures

2006-05-12 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
The VNC protocol says the server is is supposed to send the data in the format the client wants, however the current implementation sends vnc data in the server native format. What is the best way to fix this? Using -bgr is not right since that will mess up same-endian clients.

Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC cross-endian failures

2006-05-12 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
, Fabrice Bellard wrote: Troy Benjegerdes wrote: The VNC protocol says the server is is supposed to send the data in the format the client wants, however the current implementation sends vnc data in the server native format. What is the best way to fix this? Using -bgr is not right since

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vnc.c vnchextile.h

2006-05-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:11:50PM +, Fabrice Bellard wrote: CVSROOT: /sources/qemu Module name: qemu Branch: Changes by: Fabrice Bellard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/05/14 18:11:49 Modified files: . : vnc.c vnchextile.h Log message: support for

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vnc.c vnchextile.h

2006-05-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Modified files: . : vnc.c vnchextile.h Log message: support for all VNC pixel formats Chicken of the vnc on MacOS X http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ seems to have some issues with hextile encoding with a linux-x86-64 host system running qemu.

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vnc.c vnchextile.h

2006-05-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Chicken of the vnc on MacOS X http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ Can you provide a bit more info on what you mean by troubles? Regards, Anthony Liguori I found a wonderfull little tool called 'rfbproxy'. It, and saved sessions of the bogus behavior with chickenofthevnc are

[Qemu-devel] OSX 10.4.7 build

2006-09-14 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
-vmdk.c block-cloop.c block-dmg.c block-bochs.c block-vpc.c block-vvfat.c block-qcow2.c -lz block.c: In function 'bdrv_commit': block.c:448: error: 'ENOMEDIUM' undeclared (first use in this function) -- -- Troy Benjegerdes

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted

2012-08-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I'd be interested in working on this.. What I'd like to propose is to write an automated regression test harness that will reboot the host hardware, and start booting up guest VMs and report the time-to-boot, as well as relative performance of the running VMs. For best results, I'd need access to

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted

2012-08-21 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Do you have any way to determine what CPU groups the different VMs are running on? If you end up in an overcommit situation where half the 'virtual' cpus are on one AMD socket, and the other half are on a different AMD socket, then you'll be thrashing the hypertransport link. At Cray we were

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted

2012-08-22 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I've now triggered a very slow boot at 3x 36GB 8-core VMs on a 128GB host (i.e. 108GB on a 128GB host). It has the same profile with _raw_spin_lock_irqsave and isolate_freepages_block at the top. Then it's still memory starved. Please provide /proc/zoneinfo while this is

Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:36:08PM +0100, Chris Webb wrote: We're planning to implement shared filesystems for guests on our virtualized hosting platform, stored on a central fileserver separate from the hosts. Whilst we can mount the shares on each host and then use qemu's 9p

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC V4 00/30] QCOW2 deduplication

2013-01-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
hardware) -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software hardware (http://q3u.be) stuff and not get a real job

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC V4 00/30] QCOW2 deduplication

2013-01-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
) -- Troy Benjegerdes'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software hardware (http://q3u.be) stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC V4 00/30] QCOW2 deduplication

2013-01-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
at 10:40 AM, Beno?t Canet benoit.ca...@irqsave.net wrote: Le Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 ? 12:26:37 (-0600), Troy Benjegerdes a ?crit : The probability may be 'low' but it is not zero. Just because it's hard to calculate the hash doesn't mean you can't do it. If your input data is not random

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC V4 00/30] QCOW2 deduplication

2013-01-03 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:39:48PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:26:37PM -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: The probability may be 'low' but it is not zero. Just because it's hard to calculate the hash doesn't mean you can't do it. If your input data is not random