Re: [libvirt] Looking for project ideas and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-09 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:45:07PM +0100, Giorgio Zoppi wrote: i offer part of my free time as mentor. From my original email: In order to mentor you must be an established contributor (regularly contribute patches). I couldn't find any commits from you in QEMU, libvirt, or Linux. Did I miss

Re: Using block device instead of character device for virtio-serial

2014-02-09 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:22:36PM +0530, Jobin Raju George wrote: I am trying to establish a communication mechanism between the guest and its host using virtio-serial. For this I am using the following to boot the VM: qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 \ -name ubuntu_vm \ -hda ubuntu \ -device

Re: MSI interrupt support with vioscsi.c miniport driver

2014-02-09 Thread Yan Vugenfirer
Hi Nicholas, Adding Vadim Rozenfeld who wrote the virtio-scsi driver. Best regards, Yan. On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: Hi Yan, So recently I've been doing some KVM guest performance comparisons between the scsi-mq prototype using

Re: MSI interrupt support with vioscsi.c miniport driver

2014-02-09 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 11:24 +0200, Yan Vugenfirer wrote: Hi Nicholas, Adding Vadim Rozenfeld who wrote the virtio-scsi driver. Best regards, Yan. On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: Hi Yan, So recently I've been doing some KVM guest

kvm mmu notifier

2014-02-09 Thread Hu Yaohui
Hi All, If the host system decides that it wants to push a given page out to swap, the host will notify the host through registered mmu notifier to inform the guest. I am wondering if there any other situations, other than swapping, which will trigger the mmu notifier to inform host page change to

Fwd: Using block device instead of character device for virtio-serial

2014-02-09 Thread Jobin Raju George
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jobin Raju George jobin...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:39 PM Subject: Re: Using block device instead of character device for virtio-serial To: Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@gmail.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 4/7] target-i386: Rename cpu_x86_register() to x86_cpu_load_def()

2014-02-09 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 31.01.2014 12:42, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: Il 30/01/2014 20:48, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto: There isn't any kind of registration involved in cpu_x86_register() anymore: it is simply looking up a CPU model name and loading the model definition data into the X86CPU object. Rename it to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 5/7] target-i386: Call x86_cpu_load_def() earlier

2014-02-09 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 30.01.2014 20:48, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: As we will initialize the X86CPU fields on instance_init eventually, move the code that initializes the X86CPU data based on the CPU model name closer to the object_new() call. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost ehabk...@redhat.com Thanks, applied

Re: [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 6/7] target-i386: Rename x86_def_t to X86CPUDefinition

2014-02-09 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 31.01.2014 12:42, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: Il 30/01/2014 20:48, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto: As the new X86CPU subclass code is going to change lots of the code invoving x86_def_t, let's rename the struct to match coding style first. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost ehabk...@redhat.com [...]

Re: [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 7/7 v8] target-i386: CPU model subclasses

2014-02-09 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 31.01.2014 19:13, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: Register separate QOM classes for each x86 CPU model. This will allow management code to more easily probe what each CPU model provides, by simply creating objects using the appropriate class name, without having to restart QEMU. This also