Re: updated: kvm PCI todo wiki
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 14:45 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: On 08/21/2013 12:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Hey guys, I've put up a wiki page with a kvm PCI todo list, mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing in KVM: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PCITodo This page could cover all PCI related activity in KVM, it is very incomplete. We should probably add e.g. IOMMU related stuff. Note: if there's no developer listed for an item, this just means I don't know of anyone actively working on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to. I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this list would add their names so we can communicate better. If others like this wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any. It would be especially nice to add testing projects. Also, feel free to add links to bugzillas items. On a related note, did anyone ever tried to test MSI / MSI-X with a windows guest? I've tried to enable it for virtio but for some reason Windows didn't wanted to enable it. AHCI was even worse; the stock Windows version doesn't support MSI and the Intel one doesn't like our implementation :-(. Anyone ever managed to get this to work? If not it'd be a good topic for the wiki ... Speaking of which, I asked Asias about this recently and he seems to think that virtio-net + virtio-blk drivers for MSFT do in fact support MSI /MSI-X. MST, do you know if that that true..? --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: updated: kvm PCI todo wiki
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:29:34AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 14:45 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: On 08/21/2013 12:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Hey guys, I've put up a wiki page with a kvm PCI todo list, mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing in KVM: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PCITodo This page could cover all PCI related activity in KVM, it is very incomplete. We should probably add e.g. IOMMU related stuff. Note: if there's no developer listed for an item, this just means I don't know of anyone actively working on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to. I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this list would add their names so we can communicate better. If others like this wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any. It would be especially nice to add testing projects. Also, feel free to add links to bugzillas items. On a related note, did anyone ever tried to test MSI / MSI-X with a windows guest? I've tried to enable it for virtio but for some reason Windows didn't wanted to enable it. AHCI was even worse; the stock Windows version doesn't support MSI and the Intel one doesn't like our implementation :-(. Anyone ever managed to get this to work? If not it'd be a good topic for the wiki ... Speaking of which, I asked Asias about this recently and he seems to think that virtio-net + virtio-blk drivers for MSFT do in fact support MSI /MSI-X. MST, do you know if that that true..? --nab Yes, they do for modern windows versions. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: updated: kvm PCI todo wiki
On 08/21/2013 12:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Hey guys, I've put up a wiki page with a kvm PCI todo list, mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing in KVM: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PCITodo This page could cover all PCI related activity in KVM, it is very incomplete. We should probably add e.g. IOMMU related stuff. Note: if there's no developer listed for an item, this just means I don't know of anyone actively working on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to. I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this list would add their names so we can communicate better. If others like this wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any. It would be especially nice to add testing projects. Also, feel free to add links to bugzillas items. On a related note, did anyone ever tried to test MSI / MSI-X with a windows guest? I've tried to enable it for virtio but for some reason Windows didn't wanted to enable it. AHCI was even worse; the stock Windows version doesn't support MSI and the Intel one doesn't like our implementation :-(. Anyone ever managed to get this to work? If not it'd be a good topic for the wiki ... Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries Storage h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: updated: kvm PCI todo wiki
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 14:45 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: On 08/21/2013 12:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Hey guys, I've put up a wiki page with a kvm PCI todo list, mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing in KVM: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PCITodo This page could cover all PCI related activity in KVM, it is very incomplete. We should probably add e.g. IOMMU related stuff. Note: if there's no developer listed for an item, this just means I don't know of anyone actively working on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to. I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this list would add their names so we can communicate better. If others like this wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any. It would be especially nice to add testing projects. Also, feel free to add links to bugzillas items. On a related note, did anyone ever tried to test MSI / MSI-X with a windows guest? I've tried to enable it for virtio but for some reason MSI-X is a default mode for NetKvm and viostor on Vista and forward. It must work. Just make sure that CPU family is 0xf or higher, otherwise Windows will not activate MSI-X. Vadim. Windows didn't wanted to enable it. AHCI was even worse; the stock Windows version doesn't support MSI and the Intel one doesn't like our implementation :-(. Anyone ever managed to get this to work? If not it'd be a good topic for the wiki ... Cheers, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: updated: kvm PCI todo wiki
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:45:36PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: On 08/21/2013 12:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Hey guys, I've put up a wiki page with a kvm PCI todo list, mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing in KVM: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PCITodo This page could cover all PCI related activity in KVM, it is very incomplete. We should probably add e.g. IOMMU related stuff. Note: if there's no developer listed for an item, this just means I don't know of anyone actively working on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to. I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this list would add their names so we can communicate better. If others like this wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any. It would be especially nice to add testing projects. Also, feel free to add links to bugzillas items. On a related note, did anyone ever tried to test MSI / MSI-X with a windows guest? I've tried to enable it for virtio but for some reason Windows didn't wanted to enable it. AHCI was even worse; the stock Windows version doesn't support MSI and the Intel one doesn't like our implementation :-(. Anyone ever managed to get this to work? If not it'd be a good topic for the wiki ... Cheers, Hannes I put some AHCI - related things there: making intel's AHCI driver work with QEMU would be nice - e.g. for windows XP guests. It might also help uncover some bugs. -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries Storage h...@suse.de+49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html