[Qemu-devel] SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Brazie
Let me try this again from Thunderbird: Here is a patch that merges the externals for IDE and SCSI with a --disk as Paul requested. Let me know if you want different keywords. Chuck diff -Nuar -X diff_excludes /hg-qemu/hw/pc.c /qemu-new/hw/pc.c --- /hg-qemu/hw/pc.c2006-10-09

Re: [Qemu-devel] SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

2006-12-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Chuck, IMHO, in order to be able to use such patches as yours (big patches), I think it would be the best to attached them as compressed files (gzip, bz2). That way, almost any mailer knows how to handle attachment without scrambling the patch formatting Thanks, Hetz On 12/12/06, Chuck Brazie

[Qemu-devel] NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Salvador Fandiño
Hi, The patch available from http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2718 adds a new utility, qemu-nbds, that implements a NBD server (see http://nbd.sf.net) for QEMU images. Using this utility it is posible to mount images in any format supported by QEMU. Unfortunatelly, only read access

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Simplily linux-user/path.c

2006-12-12 Thread Kirill Shutemov
I have no ideas why path.c is so complex. Any? In the attachment rewritten version. It has tested with qemu-arm. With old version I had the problem. It hangs due loop of symlinks. :( path.c.patch Description: Binary data ___ Qemu-devel mailing list

[Qemu-devel] Linux Kernel to Include KVM Virtualization

2006-12-12 Thread Ricardo Almeida
Hi, Just saw this on slashdot (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/0135240). From the news: In a fashion comparable to that of Xen a modified QEMU is used for the supportive emulation of typical PC components of the virtual machines So, when it will run with a non-modified QEMU?

Re: [Qemu-devel] NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Martin Guy
The patch available from http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2718 adds a new utility, qemu-nbds, that implements a NBD server I have been using nbd volumes mounted from inside qemu for filestore and for swap, both read-write, served from files and from partitions, with the unmodified

Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux Kernel to Include KVM Virtualization

2006-12-12 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Ricardo Almeida wrote: Hi, Just saw this on slashdot (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/0135240). From the news: In a fashion comparable to that of Xen a modified QEMU is used for the supportive emulation of typical PC components of the virtual machines So, when it will run

RE: [Qemu-devel] Linux Kernel to Include KVM Virtualization

2006-12-12 Thread Dor Laor
Hi, My name is Dor and I'm one of the contributors for the KVM. Ricardo Almeida wrote: Hi, Just saw this on slashdot (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/0135240). From the news: In a fashion comparable to that of Xen a modified QEMU is used for the supportive

[Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
Salvador Fandiño wrote: Hi, The patch available from http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2718 adds a new utility, qemu-nbds, that implements a NBD server (see http://nbd.sf.net) for QEMU images. Using this utility it is posible to mount images in any format supported by QEMU.

[Qemu-devel] Re: SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

2006-12-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Chuck, IMHO, in order to be able to use such patches as yours (big patches), I think it would be the best to attached them as compressed files (gzip, bz2). Ugh. It's a text plain attachment. No mailers will scramble that. A lot of mailing lists will drop any non

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Paul Brook
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:00, Salvador Fandino wrote: Martin Guy wrote: The patch available from http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2718 adds a new utility, qemu-nbds, that implements a NBD server I have been using nbd volumes mounted from inside qemu for filestore and for

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:58:32PM +, Paul Brook wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:00, Salvador Fandino wrote: It serves disk images in any format QEMU can handle, for instance, qcow images. It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally,

RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing then from there. mount -o loop does this. How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount qcow images. Would be

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Paul Brook
mount -o loop does this. How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount qcow images. Would be that difficult to write a qcow fs module ? qcow is an image format, not a filesystem. I'd guess it should be possible to use the device-mapper framework to do this. I've

RE : [Qemu-devel] Re: SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

2006-12-12 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
--- Anthony Liguori [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Chuck, IMHO, in order to be able to use such patches as yours (big patches), I think it would be the best to attached them as compressed files (gzip, bz2). Ugh. It's a text plain attachment. No mailers will

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing then from there. mount -o loop does this. How is everybody missing the

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:33:22PM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing then from there. mount -o loop does this. How is everybody

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Williamson
It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing then from there. mount -o loop does this. How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount qcow images. Using

RE: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Paul Robinson
It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing then from there. mount -o loop does this. How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount qcow

[Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Salvador Fandino
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:33:22PM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing then from there. mount -o loop does this. How is

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix userland ELF load failure when no .bss is present

2006-12-12 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Hello All, the appended patch fixes the case where a ELF Linux binary has a zero-sized .bss, or none at all. Thiemo Index: qemu-work/linux-user/elfload.c === --- qemu-work.orig/linux-user/elfload.c 2006-12-12 18:25:00.0

[Qemu-devel] Re: RE : Re: Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Salvador Fandino
Sylvain Petreolle wrote: It's mostly intended to be used for accessing the files inside QEMU disk images locally, without having to launch a virtual machine and accessing then from there. mount -o loop does this. How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount qcow

[Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
Paul Brook wrote: mount -o loop does this. How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount qcow images. Would be that difficult to write a qcow fs module ? qcow is an image format, not a filesystem. I'd guess it should be possible to use the device-mapper framework to do

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Christian MICHON
On 12/12/06, Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is everybody missing the point? :-) mount -o loop doesn't mount qcow images. you could also mount it through a samba tunnel -- Christian ___ Qemu-devel mailing list

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check machine type and endianness in softmmu ELF loader

2006-12-12 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Hello All, the appended patch check the machine type and the endianness of the ELF binaries involved. For MIPS it removes the raw binary backward compatibility mode, recent kernels won't work with as raw binaries. I'm not sure if machine check is good enough. If it has to check for more than one

[Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
Salvador Fandino wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Salvador Fandiño wrote: Hi, The patch available from http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2718 adds a new utility, qemu-nbds, that implements a NBD server (see http://nbd.sf.net) for QEMU images. Using this utility it is posible to mount

Re: [Qemu-devel] SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

2006-12-12 Thread Russell Jackson
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:02:33AM -0500, Chuck Brazie wrote: Here is a patch that merges the externals for IDE and SCSI with a --disk as Paul requested. Let me know if you want different keywords. I was able to apply the patch (almost) cleanly to a November snapshot. The following

Re: [Qemu-devel] SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Stekloff
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:42 -0800, Russell Jackson wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:02:33AM -0500, Chuck Brazie wrote: Here is a patch that merges the externals for IDE and SCSI with a --disk as Paul requested. Let me know if you want different keywords. I was able to apply the patch

Re: [Qemu-devel] SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

2006-12-12 Thread Russell Jackson
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:57:36PM -0800, Daniel Stekloff wrote: I was able to apply the patch (almost) cleanly to a November snapshot. The following invocation results in the LSI controller showing up in Windows XP, but the disk(s) do not. Am I missing something? qemu -kernel-kqemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Williamson
And write access works for me. What's this limitation you speak of? Mounting a partition being served on the same host as read-write can cause deadlocks. From nbd-2.9.0 README file: This text is pretty old. Is this still valid? This would imply that things like loop can result in