Re: Unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to guests

2012-02-04 Thread Binarus
Jim,

I just don't know how I could thank you! I have put multiple days into that 
problem and didn't remember nor see that I already have put -smp 1 later in the 
command. I think it would have cost me some more days or I would have been 
unable to solve the problem at all if you didn't give me that hint.

It's working like expected now; the guest sees and uses the additional CPU 
core, and the backup from encrypted drives to other encrypted drives is running 
much faster and with lower CPU load now.

An amusing aside: During my experiments, I had a set of parameters which made 
the Windows guest think it runs at 7.2 GHz (3 x 2.4 GHz where 2.4 GHz is the 
real clock rate of the host's CPU). Unfortunately, I can't remember the exact 
command, but I believe it roughly looked like ... -cpu qemu64 -smp2 ... -smp 1 
...

Regards,

Binarus


On 30.01.2012 18:44, Jim Paris wrote:
 Binarus wrote:
 Dear all,

 it seems that I am unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to KVM
 guests. Whatever I do, the guests only report one CPU / core.
 ...
 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -cpu host -smp cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1 
 -drive file=/dev/sda6,if=virtio,cache=none,index=0 -drive 
 file=/dev/sdb,if=virtio,cache=none,index=1 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -pidfile 
 ./qemu-garak.pid -boot c -k de -m 4096 -smp 1 -device 
 pci-assign,host=01:05.0 -daemonize -usb -usbdevice tablet -name garak -net 
 nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=02:01:01:01:01:01 -net 
 tap,vlan=0,ifname=virtnet1,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=/etc/qemu-ifup 
 -vnc :1
 
 Remove the -smp 1.
 
 -jim
 
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Re: Unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to guests

2012-01-30 Thread Jim Paris
Binarus wrote:
 Dear all,
 
 it seems that I am unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to KVM
 guests. Whatever I do, the guests only report one CPU / core.
...
 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -cpu host -smp cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1 
 -drive file=/dev/sda6,if=virtio,cache=none,index=0 -drive 
 file=/dev/sdb,if=virtio,cache=none,index=1 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -pidfile 
 ./qemu-garak.pid -boot c -k de -m 4096 -smp 1 -device pci-assign,host=01:05.0 
 -daemonize -usb -usbdevice tablet -name garak -net 
 nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=02:01:01:01:01:01 -net 
 tap,vlan=0,ifname=virtnet1,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=/etc/qemu-ifup 
 -vnc :1

Remove the -smp 1.

-jim
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Unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to guests

2012-01-29 Thread Binarus
Dear all,

it seems that I am unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to KVM guests. Whatever 
I do, the guests only report one CPU / core.

Host hardware: Xeon E5620 on a Supermicro mainboard
Host software: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) 64-Bit

I have compiled my own (newer) kernel 2.6.37 for Natty (since I had certain 
problems with PCI passthrough if I used the standard kernel). I did not alter 
the other parts of the distribution; notably, I am using the original qemu-kvm 
package which was included.

Since virt-manager and the related tools were failing with unintelligible error 
messages when trying the very first basic action, I am starting the virtual 
machines by hand instead of using any wrappers / managers. I am using commands 
like this one:

/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -cpu host -smp cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1 
-drive file=/dev/sda6,if=virtio,cache=none,index=0 -drive 
file=/dev/sdb,if=virtio,cache=none,index=1 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -pidfile 
./qemu-garak.pid -boot c -k de -m 4096 -smp 1 -device pci-assign,host=01:05.0 
-daemonize -usb -usbdevice tablet -name garak -net 
nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=02:01:01:01:01:01 -net 
tap,vlan=0,ifname=virtnet1,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=/etc/qemu-ifup -vnc 
:1

I also have tried -cpu host and -smp cores=1,threads=1,sockets=2 (amongst other 
things).

I am running several Windows guests (Server 2003 R2 (32 Bit), Server 2008 R2 
(64 Bit), Windows XP Pro (32 Bit), Windows 7 Pro (64 Bit)) and Linux guests 
(Ubuntu 11.10 (64 Bit), Debian squeeze (32 Bit)), but all of these only report 
one processor / core, regardless of the -smp settings; besides that, the setup 
works reliably.

Now, I really need additional CPU power in one of the guests, so I am wondering 
what I am doing wrong. Of course, I have read about changing the HAL within 
Windows and tried several things (Uniprocessor HAL vs. Multiprocessor HAL), but 
with no success. After having put a whole day into trying to solve the problem, 
I now don't know what else I could do.

Does anybody have any idea what is going wrong? Is there some kernel compile 
option (2.6.37) which may be responsible for not being able to pass multiple 
cores to the guests? Does the qemu-kvm version have to fit to the kernel 
version (there are no warning messages when I start the guests like shown 
above)?

Thank you very much,

Binarus
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