Re: [PATCH] kvm: bios: Put AP boot up code to 0x1000

2008-08-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Sebastian Herbszt wrote: The AP enters HALT state with IF=0. What can make it resume at the following jmp 1b? NMI? SMI? Yes, but also INIT. We might ignore IF=0 for hlt (which would be a bug). I think i read something about a need for 4kb alignment for the startup vector in the mp specs.

Re: [RFC][PATCH] VMX: Invalid guest state emulation

2008-08-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Mohammed Gamal wrote: This patch aims to allow emulation whenever guest state is not valid for VMX operation. This usually happens in mode switches with guests such as older versions of gfxboot and FreeDOS with HIMEM. The patch aims to address this issue, it introduces the following: - A

Re: [PATCH] Clear temporary interrupt blocking on halt in real mode

2008-08-10 Thread Avi Kivity
Laurent Vivier wrote: When halt is emulated, skip_emulated_instruction() is called and interruptibility state is cleared. But when halt is emulated in real mode, skip_emulated_instruction() is not called and the interruptiblity state is not cleared. The following code, from gPXE, never exits

Problem with -curses mode ?

2008-08-10 Thread Ian Kirk
Hi, When I run with -curses and alt-2 to the monitor, it appears to render as follows: QEMU 0.9.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) (qemu) (qemu) Command line

Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Re: [libvirt] RE: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] virt-mem tools version 0.2.8 released

2008-08-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:07:32AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Libvirt deliberately doesn't expose the full feature set of any one hypervisor which it supports, but instead exposes common features. Judging by one private reply I got, I don't want this to be misinterpreted. Libvirt

I/O performance

2008-08-10 Thread xming
Hi all, After that I migrated my home sever from xen to kvm, I noticed very bad I/O performance, tried many combination versions/scsi-ide-virtio I got best by using kernel mod. 70 with userspace 69 and virtio. Now I have upgraded to 2.6.26.2 and kvm-72, and the performance has dropped again. SO

Re: Problem with -curses mode ?

2008-08-10 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:56:37AM +0100, Ian Kirk wrote: Before I go trying to debug try later versions of kvm userspace, is this a known problem, or an obvious user error ? known problem, it is not kvm specific either (as the implementation comes AS-IS from qemu) so if you are going to