Re: [PATCH KVM VMX 2/2] KVM: VMX: Support Unrestricted Guest feature

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Nitin A Kamble wrote: "Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification. Intel Westmere and onwards processors will support this feature. It allows kvm guests to run real mode and unpaged mode code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the unrestricted guest there

Re: [PATCH KVM VMX 1/2] KVM: VMX: Rename rmode.active to rmode.vm86_active

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Nitin A Kamble wrote: That way the interpretation of rmode.active becomes more clear with unrestricted guest code. Applied, thanks. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in th

Re: Choosing the right KVM version for production on CentOS 5.3

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Federico Simoncelli wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to switch from xen to kvm. I already successfully installed and tested kvm-84 on a CentOS 5.3 but before put it in production I'd like some advices from you: 1) I'm trying to settle and use one version of kvm maybe backporting some patches when neede

Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Flush icache after dma operations for ia64

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Jes Sorensen wrote: Zhang, Xiantao wrote: Hi Jes, Good news! On my machine, without the patch, smp guest can't build one whole kernel at all. So if you can build it without errors and use it to boot up the guest, I think it should work well. Xiantao Yep, compiles, boots, the works ... Avi,

Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Enable UFO on virtio-net/tap devices

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Sridhar Samudrala wrote: Enable UFO on the host tap device if supported and allow setting UFO on virtio-net in the guest. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala diff --git a/hw/virtio-net.c b/hw/virtio-net.c index 3c77b99..8a53e27 100644 --- a/hw/virtio-net.c +++ b/hw/virtio-net.c @@ -134,7 +134,8

Re: [RFC] CPU hard limits

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Chris Friesen wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: I am selling virtual private servers. A 10% cpu share costs $x/month, and I guarantee you'll get that 10%, or your money back. On the other hand, I want to limit cpu usage to that 10% (maybe a little more) so people don't buy 10% shares and use 100%

Re: [RFC] CPU hard limits

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Balbir Singh wrote: I am selling virtual private servers. A 10% cpu share costs $x/month, and I guarantee you'll get that 10%, or your money back. On the other hand, I want to limit cpu usage to that 10% (maybe a little more) so people don't buy 10% shares and use 100% on my underutilized serve

Re: [RFC] CPU hard limits

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Bharata B Rao wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:01:50AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Bharata B Rao wrote: But could there be client models where you are required to strictly adhere to the limit within the bandwidth and not provide more (by advancing the bandwidth period) in the presence of

Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add VT-x machine check support v2

2009-06-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Andi Kleen wrote: KVM: Add VT-x machine check support v2 VT-x needs an explicit MC vector intercept to handle machine checks in the hyper visor. It also has a special option to catch machine checks that happen during VT entry. Do these interceptions and forward them to the Linux machine chec

[ kvm-Bugs-2777286 ] Hard Disk: 1 TB images fail to get formatted

2009-06-06 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2777286, was opened at 2009-04-21 09:38 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sf-robot You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=2777286&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

Re: [PATCH] virtio: add a virtio-console to the vbus backend

2009-06-06 Thread Gregory Haskins
Gregory Haskins wrote: > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:30:07PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Michael, >>> FYI: This was a patch I started to put together around the time vbus-v3 >>> was >>> released to demonstrate the interface for virtio dev

Re: [PATCH] virtio: add a virtio-console to the vbus backend

2009-06-06 Thread Gregory Haskins
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:30:07PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> FYI: This was a patch I started to put together around the time vbus-v3 was >> released to demonstrate the interface for virtio devices that we needed. I >> just wanted to get

Re: [PATCH] virtio: add a virtio-console to the vbus backend

2009-06-06 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:30:07PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > Hi Michael, > FYI: This was a patch I started to put together around the time vbus-v3 was > released to demonstrate the interface for virtio devices that we needed. I > just wanted to get it out to you so you have a working e

Re: [PATCH] virtio: add a virtio-console to the vbus backend

2009-06-06 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:30:07PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > Hi Michael, > FYI: This was a patch I started to put together around the time vbus-v3 was > released to demonstrate the interface for virtio devices that we needed. I > just wanted to get it out to you so you have a working e

Re: Missing shutdown.exe in win2k3 R2 Datacentre Guest under ssh

2009-06-06 Thread Michael Goldish
Try running cmd.exe (both under SSH and directly) and try running shutdown.exe there. If that works, the problem is probably somewhere in the Cygwin configuration, so it might help to try an SSH server that doesn't use Cygwin. (We're currently considering the option of writing our own simple remo

Re: Missing shutdown.exe in win2k3 R2 Datacentre Guest under ssh

2009-06-06 Thread sudhir kumar
Does anyone have an idea on the issue below ? On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:16 PM, sudhir kumar wrote: > Hi, > I recently installed a Windows 2003 R2 datacentre 64 bit guest under > kvm. I installed copssh as the ssh server in the guest. When I logged > into the guest using ssh I found that the shutdow

Re: [PATCH] QEMU KVM: i386: Fix the cpu reset state

2009-06-06 Thread Jan Kiszka
Nitin A Kamble wrote: > As per the IA32 processor manual, the accessed bit is set to 1 in the > processor state after reset. qemu pc cpu_reset code was missing this > accessed bit setting. > > Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble > --- > target-i386/helper.c | 18 -- > 1 files changed

Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Enable UFO on virtio-net/tap devices

2009-06-06 Thread Jan Kiszka
Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > Enable UFO on the host tap device if supported and allow setting UFO > on virtio-net in the guest. > > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala > > > diff --git a/hw/virtio-net.c b/hw/virtio-net.c > index 3c77b99..8a53e27 100644 > --- a/hw/virtio-net.c > +++ b/hw/virtio-net.c