Looking for project ideas and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-02 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
KVM & libvirt: you are welcome to join the QEMU umbrella organization like last year. What is GSoC? Google Summer of Code 2014 (GSoC) provides funding for students to work on open source projects for 12-weeks over the summer. Open source organizations apply to participate and those accepted recei

[PATCH] arm64: KVM: Add VGIC device control for arm64

2014-02-02 Thread Christoffer Dall
This fixes the build breakage introduced by c07a0191ef2de1f9510f12d1f88e3b0b5cd8d66f and adds support for the device control API and save/restore of the VGIC state for ARMv8. The defines were simply missing from the arm64 header files and uaccess.h must be implicitly imported from somewhere else o

Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: Specify byte order for KVM_EXIT_MMIO

2014-02-02 Thread Christoffer Dall
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 12:50:47PM +, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 28 January 2014 16:28, Christoffer Dall > wrote: > > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt > > b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt > > index 366bf4b..e11f09d 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt > > +++ b/

linux 3.13 guest crash with -cpu host

2014-02-02 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
I observe this with guest 3.13 and host 3.13 when running with -cpu host on my laptop: [0.043000] Call Trace: [0.043000] [] init_hw_perf_events+0x33/0x5cd [0.043000] [] ? check_bugs+0x40/0x40 [0.043000] [] do_one_initcall+0x13a/0x190 [0.043000] [] ? native_smp_prepare_cpus+

Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: Specify byte order for KVM_EXIT_MMIO

2014-02-02 Thread Peter Maydell
On 28 January 2014 16:28, Christoffer Dall wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt > b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt > index 366bf4b..e11f09d 100644 > --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt > @@ -2565,6 +2565,10 @@ executed a memory-m

Re: Measuring KVM Performance using Hardware Performance Counters

2014-02-02 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 02/02/2014 03:08, Xin Tong ha scritto: I am getting very weird profile results by running operf on linux on the host and profiling the a kvm virtual machine running dacapo eclipse benchmark. I am expecting a lot of time should be spent in the qemu-system-x86_64 as the instructions from the ec