On 09/30/2009 07:09 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
The default, IDE, is highly supported by guests but may be slow, especially with
disk arrays. If your guest supports it, use the virtio interface:
Avi,
what is the status of data integrity issues Chris Hellwig summarized some time
ago?
I
On 09/29/2009 10:45 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:56 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
This commit:
commit 559a8f45f34cc50d1a60b4f67a06614d506b2e01
Subject: Remove stray GSO code from virtio_net (Mark McLoughlin)
Removed some GSO code from upstream qemu.git, but
On 09/30/2009 03:01 AM, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
Avi,
I modify it according your comments. The only thing I want to keep is
the module param ple_gap/window. Although they are not per-guest,
they can be used to find the right value, and disable PLE for debug
purpose.
Fair enough, ACK.
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On 09/30/2009 01:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Hi,
Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't think
the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing
out of it. I'd like to
Since the problem you pinpointed do exist, I would suggest measuring
the average load of the last,
say, 10 iterations.
The last 10 interation does not define a fixed time. I guess it is much more
reasonable to measure the average of the last '10 seconds'.
But usually a migration only takes
Hi!
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:29 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
From: Jan Kiszka jan.kis...@siemens.com
So far unprivileged guest callers running in ring 3 can issue, e.g., MMU
hypercalls. Normally, such callers cannot provide any hand-crafted MMU
command structure as it has to be passed by its
Sometimes we need login to guest using different start_time and step_time.
Signed-off-by: Yolkfull Chow yz...@redhat.com
---
client/tests/kvm/kvm_test_utils.py |6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_test_utils.py
On 09/29/2009 11:38 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsdenzams...@redhat.com
Looks good.
Is anything preventing us from unifying the constant_tsc and !same
paths? We could just do a quick check in the notifier, see the tsc
frequency hasn't changed, and return.
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
[]
Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release
(target-i386 centric). Please add or comment on items that you'd either
like to see in the release or are planning on working on.
[..]
o guest SMP support for KVM
Hmm. What is this, can you elaborate
Another problem occur when max_downtime is too short. This can results in never
ending migration task.
To reproduce just play a video inside a VM and set max_downtime to 30ns
Sure, one can argument that this behavior is expected.
But the following would avoid the problem:
+if ((stage ==
On 09/30/2009 10:53 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
[]
Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release
(target-i386 centric). Please add or comment on items that you'd
either like to see in the release or are planning on working on.
[..]
o guest SMP support
Hi,
On 30.09.2009 01:54, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.
Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release
(target-i386 centric).
o switch to
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:55:24AM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
Another problem occur when max_downtime is too short. This can results in
never ending migration task.
To reproduce just play a video inside a VM and set max_downtime to 30ns
Sure, one can argument that this behavior is
From: Michael Goldish mgold...@redhat.com
This patch adds a control.parallel file that runs several test execution
pipelines in parallel.
The number of pipelines is set to the number of CPUs reported by /proc/cpuinfo.
It can be changed by modifying the control file.
The total amount of RAM
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:24:18AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/29/2009 10:45 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:56 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
This commit:
commit 559a8f45f34cc50d1a60b4f67a06614d506b2e01
Subject: Remove stray GSO code from virtio_net (Mark
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 08:24 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:24:18AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/29/2009 10:45 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:56 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
This commit:
commit
Today's git test failed due to a build problem:
09/30 04:53:37 ERROR| kvm:0114| Test failed: Command make -j 4
failed, rc=2, Command returned non-zero exit status
* Command:
make -j 4
Exit status: 2
Duration: 0
stdout:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64/build M=`pwd` \
On 09/29/2009 05:50 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 05:22 -0400, Jiri Zupka wrote:
- Dor Laordl...@redhat.com wrote:
On 09/16/2009 04:09 PM, Jiri Zupka wrote:
- Dor Laordl...@redhat.com wrote:
On 09/15/2009 09:58 PM, Jiri Zupka wrote:
After a quick
Avi Kivity wrote:
Anthony/Glauber, is 0.10.7 in the works? If not, we'll release it as
0.10.6.1.
Yes. I can release it very soon.
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Hi Isaku,
Isaku Yamahata wrote:
o newer chipset (which is based on Q35 chipset)
o multiple pci bus
o PCI express (MMCONFIG)
o PCI express hot plug (not acpi based)
o PCI express switch emulator
Although there is no PCIe emulated device at the moment,
this will be a fundamental
Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [18:54:53], Anthony Liguori wrote:
o multiport virtio-console support
Assuming we can get the kernel drivers straightened out, I think it's
certainly reasonable for 0.12.
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Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 01:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Hi,
Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't
think the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more
testing out of it.
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi,
On 30.09.2009 01:54, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.
Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:41:23 +0200
Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote:
On 09/30/2009 01:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Hi,
Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't think
the -rc process went
From: Orit Wasserman or...@il.ibm.com
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |3 -
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 217 +++-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |6 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h |2 +
4 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
From: Orit Wasserman or...@il.ibm.com
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 70 ---
1 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 71bd91a..411cbdb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++
From: Orit Wasserman or...@il.ibm.com
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 468 ++--
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |3 +-
2 files changed, 459 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 411cbdb..8c186e0 100644
---
From: Orit Wasserman or...@il.ibm.com
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 591 +++-
1 files changed, 589 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 8c186e0..6a4c252 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++
From: Orit Wasserman or...@il.ibm.com
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 1173 ++--
1 files changed, 1148 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 6a4c252..e814029 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++
The following patches implement nested VMX support. The patches enable a guest
to use the VMX APIs in order to run its own nested guest (i.e., enable running
other hypervisors which use VMX under KVM). The current patches support running
Linux under a nested KVM using shadow page table (with
On (Wed) Sep 30 2009 [08:04:17], Anthony Liguori wrote:
Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [18:54:53], Anthony Liguori wrote:
o multiport virtio-console support
Assuming we can get the kernel drivers straightened out, I think it's
certainly reasonable for 0.12.
The kernel
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:38:37AM -1000, Zachary Amsden wrote:
Both VMX and SVM require per-cpu memory allocation, which is done at module
init time, for only online cpus.
Backend was not allocating enough structure for all possible CPUs, so
new CPUs coming online could not be hardware
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:03:20AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Hi Isaku,
Isaku Yamahata wrote:
o newer chipset (which is based on Q35 chipset)
o multiple pci bus o PCI express (MMCONFIG)
o PCI express hot plug (not acpi based)
o PCI express switch emulator
Although there is no PCIe
I might sound like a broken record, but why isn't the full GSO support
for virtio-net upstream in qemu?
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On 09/30/2009 03:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
I might sound like a broken record, but why isn't the full GSO support
for virtio-net upstream in qemu?
IIRC the current hacks are not upstream quality.
The problem (again IIRC) is that the guest and host negotiate a
protocol, but the qemu
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 15:55 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 03:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
I might sound like a broken record, but why isn't the full GSO support
for virtio-net upstream in qemu?
IIRC the current hacks are not upstream quality.
The problem (again IIRC)
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:55:24AM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
Another problem occur when max_downtime is too short. This can
results in never ending migration task.
To reproduce just play a video inside a VM and set max_downtime to
30ns
Sure, one can argument that this behavior is
Hi,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this.
I'm getting hda disks by default with kvm under RHEL5.4 using
virt-install. This seems an odd default. Is there a reason for hda
disks over sda disks? Can I change this?
Thanks,
JB
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Luiz Capitulino wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500
Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month
cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles.
I'd like to limit things to a single -rc
Amit Shah wrote:
On (Wed) Sep 30 2009 [08:04:17], Anthony Liguori wrote:
Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [18:54:53], Anthony Liguori wrote:
o multiport virtio-console support
Assuming we can get the kernel drivers straightened out, I think it's
certainly
On (Wed) Sep 30 2009 [09:47:22], Anthony Liguori wrote:
Amit Shah wrote:
On (Wed) Sep 30 2009 [08:04:17], Anthony Liguori wrote:
Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [18:54:53], Anthony Liguori wrote:
o multiport virtio-console support
Assuming we can get the kernel
On 09/30/2009 10:28 AM, James Brackinshaw wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this.
virt-install questions should be directed to virt-tools-l...@redhat.com
I'm getting hda disks by default with kvm under RHEL5.4 using
virt-install. This seems an odd default. Is there a
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Cole Robinson crobi...@redhat.com wrote:
On 09/30/2009 10:28 AM, James Brackinshaw wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this.
virt-install questions should be directed to virt-tools-l...@redhat.com
Thanks.
I'm getting hda disks by default
On 09/30/2009 11:11 AM, James Brackinshaw wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Cole Robinson crobi...@redhat.com wrote:
On 09/30/2009 10:28 AM, James Brackinshaw wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this.
virt-install questions should be directed to
virt-install --os-variant virtio26
which will take care of disk and networking defaults.
- Cole
Ah. For networking, is this in addition to, or instead of model
type=e1000 / ?
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On 09/30/2009 11:18 AM, James Brackinshaw wrote:
virt-install --os-variant virtio26
which will take care of disk and networking defaults.
- Cole
Ah. For networking, is this in addition to, or instead of model
type=e1000 / ?
Instead.
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Fred Leeflang fr...@dutchie.org wrote:
2009/9/30 Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com
Luiz Capitulino wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500
Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 01:07:27AM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
Rest of cases are already fixed qemu-upstream
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela quint...@redhat.com
---
hw/device-assignment.c |2 +-
qemu-kvm.c |2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Applied,
Now, also remove pre_task_link setting in save_state_to_tss16.
commit b237ac37a149e8b56436fabf093532483bff13b0
Author: Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com
Date: Mon Mar 30 16:03:24 2009 +0300
KVM: Fix task switch back link handling.
CC: Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Juan
On 09/29/2009 10:45 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/29/2009 11:38 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsdenzams...@redhat.com
Looks good.
Is anything preventing us from unifying the constant_tsc and !same
paths? We could just do a quick check in the notifier, see the tsc
On 09/30/2009 05:51 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
Is anything preventing us from unifying the constant_tsc and !same
paths? We could just do a quick check in the notifier, see the tsc
frequency hasn't changed, and return.
Actually, yes. On constant_tsc processors, the processor frequency
may
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 07:09 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
The default, IDE, is highly supported by guests but may be slow, especially
with disk arrays. If your guest supports it, use the virtio interface:
Avi,
what is the status of data
On 09/30/2009 05:56 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 05:51 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
If the API allows us to query the tsc frequency, it would simply
return the same values in all cases, which we'd ignore.
The API only allows querying the processor frequency. In the
constant_tsc case,
On 09/30/2009 06:11 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 06:06 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
On 09/30/2009 05:56 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 05:51 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
If the API allows us to query the tsc frequency, it would simply
return the same values in all cases, which we'd
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:01:51AM +0800, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
Avi,
I modify it according your comments. The only thing I want to keep is
the module param ple_gap/window. Although they are not per-guest, they
can be used to find the right value, and disable PLE for debug purpose.
Thanks,
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:11:32PM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:55:24AM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
Another problem occur when max_downtime is too short. This can
results in never ending migration task.
To reproduce just play a video inside a VM and set
Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Luiz Capitulino wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500
Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3
month cycle and would align well with some of the Linux
distribution cycles.
+if ((stage == 2) (bytes_transferred
2*ram_bytes_total())) {
+return 1;
+}
why 2 * ?
This means we'll have to transfer the whole contents of RAM at
least
twice to hit this condition, right?
Yes, this is just an arbitrary limit.
I don't know. If we are
On 09/30/09 15:59, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
I'm planning on adding -hostnet and -nic arguments, which would not use
vlans by default but rather connect the nic directly to the host side.
No new -nic argument please. We should just finalize the qdev-ifycation
of the nic drivers, then you'll do
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net wrote:
On 30.09.2009 15:07, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
However, to run coreboot on Qemu with the same init sequence as on
simplified real hardware, we need Cache-as-RAM (CAR)
On 09/30/09 16:45, Anthony Liguori wrote:
One reason I branch is because some people care a bit less about
releases so it makes the process non-disruptive to them. If the other
maintainers agreed though, I would certainly like to have the master
branch essentially frozen for the week before the
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/26/2009 12:32 AM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
I realize in retrospect that my choice of words above implies vbus _is_
complete, but this is not what I was saying. What I was trying to
convey is that vbus is _more_ complete. Yes, in either case some kind
of glue needs to
Hello all,
Anybody found this problem before? I kept hitting this issue for 2.6.31
guest kernel even with a simple network test.
INFO: task kjournal:337 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_sec disables this message.
kjournald D 0041 0
Ross Boylan wrote:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/HOWTO1 says to build kvm I should get the
latest kvm-release.tar.gz.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Downloads says If you want to use the
latest version of KVM kernel modules and supporting userspace, you can
download the latest version from
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Patch is self-explanatory
commit 071a800cd07c2b9d13c7909aa99016d89a814ae6
Author: Zachary Amsden zams...@redhat.com
Date: Wed Sep 30 17:03:16 2009 -1000
Remove warning due to kvm_mmu_notifier_change_pte being static
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden zams...@redhat.com
diff --git
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jan Beulich jbeul...@novell.com wrote:
Hollis Blanchard 09/29/09 2:00 AM
First, I think there is a real bug here, and the code should read like
this (to match the comment):
/* type has to be known at build
Hollis Blanchard holl...@us.ibm.com 30.09.09 01:39
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:28 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
Hollis Blanchard 09/29/09 2:00 AM
First, I think there is a real bug here, and the code should read like
this (to match the comment):
/* type has to be known at build time for
On 09/29/2009 10:17 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even more fun
to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as well.
This patchset implements KVM support for
On 30.09.2009, at 10:42, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/29/2009 10:17 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
KVM for PowerPC only supports embedded cores at the moment.
While it makes sense to virtualize on small machines, it's even
more fun
to do so on big boxes. So I figured we need KVM for PowerPC64 as
On 09/30/2009 10:47 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
What's the plan here? While not a requirement for merging, that's
one of the kvm points of strength and I'd like to see it supported
across the board.
I'm having a deja vu :-).
Will probably get one on every repost.
The plan is to get
On 30.09.2009, at 10:59, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 09/30/2009 10:47 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
What's the plan here? While not a requirement for merging, that's
one of the kvm points of strength and I'd like to see it supported
across the board.
I'm having a deja vu :-).
Will probably
On 09/30/2009 02:04 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Avi Kivity wrote:
r = -EINVAL;
if (log-slot= KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS)
@@ -718,8 +719,15 @@ int kvm_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm,
for (i = 0; !any i n/sizeof(long); ++i)
any =
On 09/30/2009 03:17 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
{
struct page *page[1];
@@ -2331,7 +2374,7 @@ static int kvm_vm_mmap(struct file *file,
struct vm_area_struct *vma)
static struct file_operations kvm_vm_fops = {
.release= kvm_vm_release,
.unlocked_ioctl = kvm_vm_ioctl,
-
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