How well does KVM connect a physical drive to the VM?

like an opinion, because while I can hot swap drives in the external enclosure, the enclosure warns against connecting to a powered computer, so I have to take a downtime. Thanks for any educated opinions. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We are not out of the woods yet, but we know

Re: [PATCH] KVM: remove redundant NULL tests

-exit_reason == EXIT_REASON_PAL_CALL) { p-u.pal_data.ret = result; return ; } [___etc___] Clearly the original author thought that there was a path where kvm_exit_data could return a NULL pointer, was that ever possible? -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com

Re: KVM + virt-manager: which is the perfect host Linux distro?

, but if there is 1 distro which is clearly better as host OS when it comes to KVM+virt-manager, I am willing to use something else... ;-) Fedora supports KVM and virt-manager nicely. I can't say it's the best, only that it works solidly. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from

Re: kvm binary names

-system-ppc and so forth? There are many of these, arm and m68k for instance. On x86 I assume that they are both emulated, and they are not two names for the same executable or such, so what are they and how to choose which to use? -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from

Re: More vcd info wanted

Ryan Harper wrote: * Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com [2009-03-30 15:51]: I am looking for detailed information or a single reproducible example of starting a VM using the qemu-kvm command from a script under Linux (and a display script on a control host, obviously). What software needs

Re: Setting disk parameters in a VM

Avi Kivity wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Based on a discussion in another list on ioschedulers, I added a few lines to my rc.local to set the scheduler to noop for disks with model QEMU*, to the scheduling in the VM will not be computing with the scheduling in the host. I wonder if the same

Re: fedora-10 install hang

to initialize... - Two things to try, run kvm qith the -std-vga option, and/or start the install with vga set to a reasonable resolution like 0x318. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

KVM can't install Windows

. Base is a small server with Intel quad core 2.66GHz CPU, 8GB memory, and 2TB SATA. FC9, fully patched, 32 bit PATA kernel. Running some FC4, CentOS, and DragonFly machines for various services. Someone have a pointer to some docs or something? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: [PATH] kvm-72 - fix compilation on 2.6.26 (anon_inode_getfd flag)

use? + +int kvm_anon_inode_getfd(const char *name, +const struct file_operations *fops, +void *priv, int flags) +{ + return anon_inode_getfd(name, fops, priv); +} + #else int kvm_anon_inode_getfd(const char *name, -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 0/9][RFC] KVM virtio_net performance

Avi Kivity wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Hi Mark, [...snip...] I'm still seeing the same problem I saw with my patch series. Namely, dhclient fails to get a DHCP address. Rusty noticed that RX has a lot more packets received then it should so we're suspicious

Re: [PATCH 0/9][RFC] KVM virtio_net performance

Avi Kivity wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: I have been discussing this (on this list) in another thread. Putting tcpdump on the eth0 device in the VM, the br0 device in the host, and the eth0 (physical NIC) in the host, you can see that when the VM generates a DHCP request it shows up

Re: [PATCH 0/9][RFC] KVM virtio_net performance

/sec This is with KVM GUEST configured FWIW. Regards, Anthony Liguori -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm

Re: Simple way of putting a VM on a LAN

Javier Guerra wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit of the original problem seems to have been clipped before you read it, or I stated it poorly. i think you're very confused. maybe you got it working the hard way, but it's really simple

Re: Simple way of putting a VM on a LAN

minutes. These are immediate and short term, but often done on machines in burn-in state, someone's desktop, etc. Little load, but the service must be running. Does that clarify? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: KVM: pvmmu breakage with gcc 4.3.0

since hypercalls _do_ clobber memory. Right, it's not telling GCC that we touch a particular variable, but rather that we may have touched any variable. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked