Re: Help converting existing VMWare Server 2 guest to KVM

2010-07-10 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/11/10, ewheeler wrote: > I'm having trouble on CentOS 5.5 too That doesn't sound too positive since Redhat is supposedly shifting to KVM as their virtualization platform of choice. :( >--- Have you tried the testing repo using these instructions? > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM#head-dd

Re: [RFC] High availability in KVM

2010-07-10 Thread david
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote: Existing open source HA stacks such as pacemaker/corosync and Red Hat Cluster Suite rely on software clustering techniques to detect both hardware failures and software failures, and employ fencing to avoid split-brain situations which, in tu

Re: Help converting existing VMWare Server 2 guest to KVM

2010-07-10 Thread ewheeler
> O > n 7/11/10, ewheeler wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 22:16 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > >> I'm trying to convert an existing VMWare Server 2 guest (Vista 64) to > >> KVM (on CentOS 5.5) in order to evaluate migrating to KVM. > > > >> Please advise if there is any more relevant and det

Re: Help converting existing VMWare Server 2 guest to KVM

2010-07-10 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/11/10, ewheeler wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 22:16 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> I'm trying to convert an existing VMWare Server 2 guest (Vista 64) to >> KVM (on CentOS 5.5) in order to evaluate migrating to KVM. > >> Please advise if there is any more relevant and detailed guide on >

Re: [PATCH V3] 2.6.34: simple IOMMU API extension to check safe interrupt remapping

2010-07-10 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:56:14PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote: > This patch allows IOMMU users to determine whether the hardware and software > support safe, isolated interrupt remapping. Not all Intel IOMMUs have the > hardware, and the software for AMD is not there yet. > Signed-off-by: Tom Lyo

Help converting existing VMWare Server 2 guest to KVM

2010-07-10 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
I'm trying to convert an existing VMWare Server 2 guest (Vista 64) to KVM (on CentOS 5.5) in order to evaluate migrating to KVM. The KVM howto describes a very cryptic process that appears to assume familiarity with too many things. I have no idea where to even start with it. Googling around, I'v

Re: Is there shadow page table cache during context switch?

2010-07-10 Thread Gu, Zhongshu
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote: > > > Gu, Zhongshu wrote: >> Hi all: >>          Recently i am looking at the code of the implementation of >> shadow page table of kvm. There is one thing that i am confused. Is >> there implementation for caching the shadow page table during

Re: Is there shadow page table cache during context switch?

2010-07-10 Thread Xiao Guangrong
Gu, Zhongshu wrote: > Hi all: > Recently i am looking at the code of the implementation of > shadow page table of kvm. There is one thing that i am confused. Is > there implementation for caching the shadow page table during context > switch? From the code, when there is action of settin

[PATCH] KVM: PIT: stop vpit before irq_routing freed

2010-07-10 Thread Xiao Guangrong
Fix: general protection fault: [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC .. Call Trace: [] ? kvm_set_irq+0xdd/0x24b [kvm] [] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x1f/0x10e [] ? sub_preempt_count+0xe/0xb6 [] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x27 [] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x104/0x109 [] ? sub_preempt_count+0xa3/0