Re: Running KVM on a Laptop

2009-02-16 Thread Ross McKay
Bryon Roche wrote: >If you're playing with kvm-git, you should be able to pull these fixes in >via cherry picking 16f197e29c19a4366a1d2ba3dcd0b4b8b0f86ce6, then >86030aade7ae09f4cedfb13973e37ba30f3db073. In fact, I compiled and installed kvm-84 today, and it seems to have resolved the problem w

[PATCH] kvm: fix typo of || to && in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

2009-02-16 Thread Wei Yongjun
Fix the typo of || to &&. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 6259d74..3f3cab2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -1813,7 +1813,7 @@ st

[PATCH v9 7/7] PCI: manual for SR-IOV user and driver developer

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao --- Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl |1 + Documentation/PCI/pci-iov-howto.txt | 99 + 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/PCI/pci-iov-howto.txt diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook

[PATCH v9 6/7] PCI: document SR-IOV sysfs entries

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 27 +++ 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci index ceddcff..84dc100 100644 --- a/Documentati

[PATCH v9 4/7] PCI: add SR-IOV API for Physical Function driver

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao --- drivers/pci/iov.c | 348 +++ drivers/pci/pci.h |3 + include/linux/pci.h | 14 ++ 3 files changed, 365 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c index c89fcb1..e4e2dac 100

[PATCH v9 5/7] PCI: handle SR-IOV Virtual Function Migration

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao --- drivers/pci/iov.c | 119 +++ drivers/pci/pci.h |4 ++ include/linux/pci.h |6 +++ 3 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c index e4e2dac..127f643 1

[PATCH v9 3/7] PCI: reserve bus range for SR-IOV device

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao --- drivers/pci/iov.c | 34 ++ drivers/pci/pci.h |5 + drivers/pci/probe.c |3 +++ 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c index 1cc879b..c89fcb1 100644 --- a/dri

[PATCH v9 2/7] PCI: restore saved SR-IOV state

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao --- drivers/pci/iov.c | 25 + drivers/pci/pci.c |1 + drivers/pci/pci.h |4 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c index e6736d4..1cc879b 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/iov.c +++

[PATCH v9 1/7] PCI: initialize and release SR-IOV capability

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao --- drivers/pci/Kconfig | 13 drivers/pci/Makefile |3 + drivers/pci/iov.c| 181 ++ drivers/pci/pci.c|7 ++ drivers/pci/pci.h| 37 ++ drivers/pci/probe.c |4 + in

[PATCH v9 0/7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2009-02-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Greetings, Following patches are intended to support SR-IOV capability in the Linux kernel. With these patches, people can turn a PCI device with the capability into multiple ones from software perspective, which will benefit KVM and achieve other purposes such as QoS, security, and etc. SR-IOV s

RE: [PATCH]remove some redundant args for ipf

2009-02-16 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Avi, Please help to check-in this patch, and it breaks ia64's build. Xiantao -Original Message- From: Zhang, Yang Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:31 PM To: kvm-i...@vger.kernel.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org; Avi Kivity; Zhang, Xiantao Subject: [PATCH]remove some redundant args

[PATCH 1/3] KVM: Ioctls for init MSI-X entry

2009-02-16 Thread Sheng Yang
Introduce KVM_SET_MSIX_NR and KVM_SET_MSIX_ENTRY two ioctls. This two ioctls are used by userspace to specific guest device MSI-X entry number and correlate MSI-X entry with GSI during the initialization stage. MSI-X should be well initialzed before enabling. Don't support change MSI-X entry num

Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Ioctls for init MSI-X entry

2009-02-16 Thread Sheng Yang
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 07:23:23 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:49:29PM +0800, Sheng Yang wrote: > > (oops... fix a typo) > > > > Introduce KVM_SET_MSIX_NR and KVM_SET_MSIX_ENTRY two ioctls. > > > > This two ioctls are used by userspace to specific guest device MSI-X > > en

Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 corruption observed, fixed by reverting old change

2009-02-16 Thread Jamie Lokier
Kevin Wolf wrote: > >> By the way and completely off-topic: Have you already tried to use the > >> VHD patches? I would really like to know if they fix your problems. > > > > Are those patches in kvm-83? I still have the image that was causing > > problems way back, and I'm converting it to raw n

Re: [PATCH] include qemu-kvm.h at all cases.

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On 2/12/09, Glauber Costa wrote: > We don't have any kind of kvm support for linux-user targets, > but conditionalizing the inclusion of kvm header make > linux-user compilation break. And we don't have a reason to > prevent that, do we? Ack, again, same problem here. The lack of inclusion of

Re: [PATCH] use KVM_UPSTREAM for ppc.

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On 2/13/09, Glauber Costa wrote: > ppc should compile with upstream qemu code, so, put these > defines in ppc specific code that references kvm functions. > > We don put them in config.h in this case, since there are > files (like vl.c) that includes both kvm.h and qemu-kvm.h, > and would brea

Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Ioctls for init MSI-X entry

2009-02-16 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:49:29PM +0800, Sheng Yang wrote: > (oops... fix a typo) > > Introduce KVM_SET_MSIX_NR and KVM_SET_MSIX_ENTRY two ioctls. > > This two ioctls are used by userspace to specific guest device MSI-X entry > number and correlate MSI-X entry with GSI during the initialization

Re: Running KVM on a Laptop

2009-02-16 Thread Ross McKay
Bryon Roche wrote: >If you're playing with kvm-git, you should be able to pull these fixes in >via cherry picking 16f197e29c19a4366a1d2ba3dcd0b4b8b0f86ce6, then >86030aade7ae09f4cedfb13973e37ba30f3db073. Thanks, but I have "other problems" at present so I'm just accepting source tarballs to bui

How is the -smb switch supposed to work?

2009-02-16 Thread Tassilo Horn
Hi all, I've successfully installed KVM (version 83 with 2.6.28 kernel) and windows as guest. I start it with kvm -net nic,macaddr=46:0e:b3:53:9f:3a \ -net user -localtime -smb /home/horn \ ~/kvm/windows.img and basically it works fine. I have network access in the guest, perform

KVM on Via Nano (Isaiah) CPUs?

2009-02-16 Thread Craig Metz
Has anyone (esp. the KVM core developers) tried to determine whether KVM works on the new Via Nano CPUs? They claim to support the Intel-style VT-x instruction set extensions and show up in cpuinfo that way. But, according to some Google searching, folks who have tried to use KVM (or Hyper-V) hav

Re: Porting KVM to Mac OS?

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Graf
On 16.02.2009, at 19:01, Neo Jia wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Liguori > wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: Hi, On 25.01.2009, at 09:16, Neo Jia wrote: hi, I am thinking if it is possible to port KVM to Mac OS (leopard). Is there anybody doing this already? I've considered

Re: Porting KVM to Mac OS?

2009-02-16 Thread Neo Jia
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 25.01.2009, at 09:16, Neo Jia wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> >>> I am thinking if it is possible to port KVM to Mac OS (leopard). Is >>> there anybody doing this already? >> >> I've considered doing it, but

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-84 release

2009-02-16 Thread Randy Smith
Avi Kivity wrote: > A long list of changes due to an unusually late release. As is becoming > usual, many of the changes come from upstream qemu; the kvm specific > changes are mostly bugfixes, but also include infrastructure intended > for message-signalled interrupts (MSI). > > kvm-84 is slower

Re: Running KVM on a Laptop

2009-02-16 Thread Bryon Roche
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:56:56 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: > NB: don't use recent sources (post v80) if you want to run compressed > qcow2 images, as you'll only get corruption. I was told on this list > that QEMU has resolved the problem but that the patch hasn't been ported > across to the KVM branc

Re: Running KVM on a Laptop

2009-02-16 Thread Andre Przywara
Ross McKay wrote: dnjap wrote: I'm looking for a laptop on which I can run KVM. 1. Does anyone have a list of AMD-V or VT-x capable laptop CPU's? Is it not as simple as checking for the svm or vt flags? egrep '(vt|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo Take a bootable LiveCD into your local computer

Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 corruption observed, fixed by reverting old change

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin Wolf
Jamie Lokier schrieb: > Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Besides reviewing the code over and over again, I think the only real >> chance is that you can get a non-productive copy of your image and add >> some debug code so that we can see at least which code path is causing >> problems. > > I have a copy of m

[PATCH] kvm: userspace: Get all cpuid values from function 2

2009-02-16 Thread Amit Shah
cpuid function 2 can have multiple values to describe cache behaviour. Loop till we have fetched all the values. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah --- qemu/qemu-kvm-x86.c | 27 +-- 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu/qemu-kvm-x86.c b/qemu/qemu-kv

[PATCH]remove some redundant args for ipf

2009-02-16 Thread Zhang, Yang
Hi This patch remove some redundant args in function pci_vga_init(),isa_vga_init(), rtc_init() in ipf.c Please review it yang >From 2a7c4cdf02c992da36f25bfe62ab1e4b0d9e3e91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yang Zhang Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:17:52 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] kvm : qemu: remove some