Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION hang in linux 2.6.23.y

2007-11-21 Thread Marko Kohtala
On Nov 21, 2007 8:56 AM, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marko Kohtala wrote: Wait for right amount of tlb flushes. Completed can be larger than needed and therefore the loop waiting them to match never ends. Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This solves

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION hang in linux 2.6.23.y

2007-11-21 Thread Avi Kivity
Marko Kohtala wrote: On Nov 21, 2007 8:56 AM, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marko Kohtala wrote: Wait for right amount of tlb flushes. Completed can be larger than needed and therefore the loop waiting them to match never ends. Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] create kvm_x86

2007-11-21 Thread Carsten Otte
Hollis Blanchard wrote: These patches are based on Xiantao's work to create struct kvm_x86. Patch 1 replaces his KVM Portability split: Splitting kvm structure (V2), and patches 2 and 3 build on it. Looks like a clean approach with to to_kvm_x86 macro. Whole series: Acked-by: Carsten Otte

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] create kvm_x86

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Shah
* Avi Kivity wrote: Carsten Otte wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: These patches are based on Xiantao's work to create struct kvm_x86. Patch 1 replaces his KVM Portability split: Splitting kvm structure (V2), and patches 2 and 3 build on it. Looks like a clean approach with to to_kvm_x86

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] create kvm_x86

2007-11-21 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Avi Kivity wrote: Carsten Otte wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: These patches are based on Xiantao's work to create struct kvm_x86. Patch 1 replaces his KVM Portability split: Splitting kvm structure (V2), and patches 2 and 3 build on it. Looks like a clean approach with to to_kvm_x86

[kvm-devel] [RFC] Expose host cpuid to guest

2007-11-21 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
These patches expose host CPU features (that are known to work under KVM) to guests. It makes a couple of benchmarks run faster, and generally gives kvm's user better info on its host. The kernel-space patch adds KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID ioctl to obtain the table of cpuid functions supported by

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Expose host cpuid to guest

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Shah
* Dan Kenigsberg wrote: These patches expose host CPU features (that are known to work under KVM) to guests. It makes a couple of benchmarks run faster, and generally gives kvm's user better info on its host. The kernel-space patch adds KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID ioctl to obtain the table of

[kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, we made a quick try of kvm-53. in short there is no progress for us (since we need the mandrake-9 i586 guest too) so switch back to kvm-36. in detail: - guest-1 smp guest are hang at starting udev - guest-1 sinlge cpu boot. - guest-2 both smp and single cpu guest boot. - guest-3 neither smp

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Izik Eidus
Farkas Levente wrote: hi, we made a quick try of kvm-53. in short there is no progress for us (since we need the mandrake-9 i586 guest too) so switch back to kvm-36. in detail: - guest-1 smp guest are hang at starting udev i am in search for this bug it worked for you in kvm-36?

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Expose host cpuid to guest

2007-11-21 Thread Avi Kivity
Dan Kenigsberg wrote: These patches expose host CPU features (that are known to work under KVM) to guests. It makes a couple of benchmarks run faster, and generally gives kvm's user better info on its host. The kernel-space patch adds KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID ioctl to obtain the table of

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Izik Eidus wrote: Farkas Levente wrote: hi, we made a quick try of kvm-53. in short there is no progress for us (since we need the mandrake-9 i586 guest too) so switch back to kvm-36. in detail: - guest-1 smp guest are hang at starting udev i am in search for this bug it worked for you in

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Hi Levente! Do you have a link where I can download Mandrake 9.0 ? Because I don't have this version, and don't know where to get it. -Alexey - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

[kvm-devel] physical migration of older machines

2007-11-21 Thread Jerry Geis
I have an AMD 4800+ machine with 2 GIG RAM. I have OLD machines that I want to virtualize and then TURN OFF. The old machines are redhat 7.3, redhat 9, centos 4 i386. I am using centos 5 x86_64. I need to have the OLD machines migrated to the virtual image. What is the BEST way to do that???

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Alexey Eremenko wrote: Hi Levente! Do you have a link where I can download Mandrake 9.0 ? Because I don't have this version, and don't know where to get it. ok. just to describe why we need it. our production servers run on mandrake-9 and mandrake-10. it's about 6-700 server running in

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Expose host cpuid to guest

2007-11-21 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:52:15PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Dan Kenigsberg wrote: These patches expose host CPU features (that are known to work under KVM) to guests. It makes a couple of benchmarks run faster, and generally gives kvm's user better info on its host. The kernel-space patch

Re: [kvm-devel] physical migration of older machines

2007-11-21 Thread Dong, Eddie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AMD 4800+ machine with 2 GIG RAM. I have OLD machines that I want to virtualize and then TURN OFF. The old machines are redhat 7.3, redhat 9, centos 4 i386. I am using centos 5 x86_64. Migrating a physical machine to a virtual environment needs

Re: [kvm-devel] physical migration of older machines

2007-11-21 Thread Avi Kivity
Jerry Geis wrote: I have the old disk and I created a 10GIG image and installed the 7.3, 9 and centos 4. Now I want to make sure the new image matches the physical image. I mounted the image as: mount -t ext3 -o loop,offset=32256 Image.redhat7.3.img /mnt/image then I executed tar

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Well, Mandrake 9.0 works on Intel/x64 KVM-51, but without SMP. It stucks with SMP. (on init stage, when entering init 5) -Alexey - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
OK, I have found that Mandrake Linux 9.0 works on Intel/x86-64 on KVM-51. Does this help you for now ? I will try to look further. -Alexey - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R)

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1835911 ] Mandrake 9.0 stucks on KVM (or even crashes KVM)

2007-11-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1835911, was opened at 2007-11-21 19:20 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=1835911group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
opened a bug report about Mandrake 9.0: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1835911group_id=180599atid=893831 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

2007-11-21 Thread Zachary Amsden
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:13 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Where the device is implemented is an implementation detail that should be hidden from the guest, isn't that one of the strengths of virtualization? Two examples: a file-based block device implemented in qemu gives you fancy file

Re: [kvm-devel] widescreen resolutions: 1680x1050

2007-11-21 Thread Francesc Romà i Frigolé
On Nov 21, 2007 11:41 AM, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesc Romà i Frigolé wrote: Hello, Sorry if the post is off-topic, but the qemu users forum has been down for several days. Is it possible to use a wide screen resolution of 1680x1050 with kvm? the guest OS is windows

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Alexey Eremenko wrote: OK, I have found that Mandrake Linux 9.0 works on Intel/x86-64 on KVM-51. Does this help you for now ? I will try to look further. try with kvm-53! it do not even start to boot for me (actually i don't remember for the kvm-51 result but it may be worked with kvm-51).

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Alexey Eremenko
try with kvm-53! it do not even start to boot for me (actually i don't remember for the kvm-51 result but it may be worked with kvm-51). Tried, and you're right. It crashes right from start. Opened a bug report. We will look into this issue.

[kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Mike
Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+. As distribution I use Ubuntu server 7.10. As kernel I use Linux 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I have 3 different vms running. At the

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Izik Eidus
Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+. As distribution I use Ubuntu server 7.10. As kernel I use Linux 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux. I have 3 different

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Mike
Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+. As distribution I use Ubuntu server 7.10. As kernel I use Linux 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Mike
Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+. As distribution I use Ubuntu server 7.10. As kernel I use Linux 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Mike
Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+. As distribution I use Ubuntu server 7.10.

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Izik Eidus
Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+. As distribution I use Ubuntu server 7.10. As kernel I

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Mike
Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm)

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Mike
Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm)

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Lynn Kerby
On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+. As distribution I use Ubuntu server 7.10. As kernel I use Linux 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x86_64

Re: [kvm-devel] VM networking stops working

2007-11-21 Thread Izik Eidus
Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Izik Eidus schrieb: Mike wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my virtual machines. I am using kvm53 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2

[kvm-devel] Compile problem with GIT repo on Scientific Linux

2007-11-21 Thread Cam Macdonell
Hi, I'm trying to install KVM using the git repos on Scientific Linux. The error occurs when I run make. The kvm-53 tarball works fine, but something is getting misconfigured when I run make -C kernel sync. This error doesn't occur on Fedora Core. I installed kernel-headers using yum

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Expose host cpuid to guest

2007-11-21 Thread Mike Lampard
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:36:31 pm Dan Kenigsberg wrote: These patches expose host CPU features (that are known to work under KVM) to guests. It makes a couple of benchmarks run faster, and generally gives kvm's user better info on its host. The kernel-space patch adds KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Haydn Solomon
Sorry to be late on reporting on kvm-53 release but I have had host hang and BSOD when running windows xp sp2 32-bit guest. I have had to revert to release 51 as I also have problems with release 52 (boot failure). My host does have flexpriority and details are as follows: Linux