Re: kvm forum schedule?

2012-10-23 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/01/2012 03:21 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Christoph Hellwig h...@infradead.org writes: Does anyone know when the kvm forum schedule for this year will be published? It should be published soon. Here is an early bird look at the schedule. It might contain tiny typos but we rather

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] kvm: Improving undercommit,overcommit scenarios in PLE handler

2012-09-27 Thread Dor Laor
On 09/27/2012 11:49 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: On 09/25/2012 08:30 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 09/24/2012 02:02 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote: On 09/24/2012 02:12 PM, Dor Laor wrote: In order to help PLE and pvticketlock converge I thought that a small test code should be developed to test

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] kvm: Improving undercommit,overcommit scenarios in PLE handler

2012-09-25 Thread Dor Laor
On 09/24/2012 02:02 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote: On 09/24/2012 02:12 PM, Dor Laor wrote: In order to help PLE and pvticketlock converge I thought that a small test code should be developed to test this in a predictable, deterministic way. The idea is to have a guest kernel module that spawn

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] kvm: Improving undercommit,overcommit scenarios in PLE handler

2012-09-24 Thread Dor Laor
In order to help PLE and pvticketlock converge I thought that a small test code should be developed to test this in a predictable, deterministic way. The idea is to have a guest kernel module that spawn a new thread each time you write to a /sys/ entry. Each such a thread spins over a

Re: [libvirt] TSC scaling interface to management

2012-09-23 Thread Dor Laor
On 09/23/2012 04:06 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:30:31PM +0300, Dor Laor wrote: On 09/21/2012 05:51 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:02:46AM +0300, Dor Laor wrote: On 09/12/2012 06:39 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: HW TSC scaling is a feature

Re: [libvirt] TSC scaling interface to management

2012-09-21 Thread Dor Laor
On 09/21/2012 05:51 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:02:46AM +0300, Dor Laor wrote: On 09/12/2012 06:39 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: HW TSC scaling is a feature of AMD processors that allows a multiplier to be specified to the TSC frequency exposed to the guest. KVM also

Re: [libvirt] TSC scaling interface to management

2012-09-20 Thread Dor Laor
On 09/12/2012 06:39 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: HW TSC scaling is a feature of AMD processors that allows a multiplier to be specified to the TSC frequency exposed to the guest. KVM also contains provision to trap TSC (KVM: Infrastructure for software and hardware based TSC rate scaling

Re: [RFC 0/2] virtio: provide a way for host to monitor critical events in the device

2012-07-24 Thread Dor Laor
On 07/24/2012 07:55 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:32:39 +0200, Sasha Levin levinsasha...@gmail.com wrote: As it was discussed recently, there's currently no way for the guest to notify the host about panics. Further more, there's no reasonable way to notify the host of other

Re: [RFC 0/2] virtio: provide a way for host to monitor critical events in the device

2012-07-24 Thread Dor Laor
On 07/24/2012 03:30 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: On 07/24/2012 10:26 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 07/24/2012 07:55 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:32:39 +0200, Sasha Levin levinsasha...@gmail.com wrote: As it was discussed recently, there's currently no way for the guest to notify

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday, June 19th

2012-07-11 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/19/2012 06:42 PM, Chegu Vinod wrote: Hello, Wanted to share some preliminary data from live migration experiments on a setup that is perhaps one of the larger ones. We used Juan's huge_memory patches (without the separate migration thread) and measured the total migration time and the

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday, June 19th

2012-07-11 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/19/2012 08:22 PM, Michael Roth wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:34:42PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:01:36 -0500 Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: I'm not at all convinced that postcopy is a good idea. There needs a clear expression of what the

Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk

2012-07-03 Thread Dor Laor
On 07/03/2012 05:22 PM, Ronen Hod wrote: On 06/18/2012 02:14 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 06/18/2012 01:05 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:03:23 +0800, Asias Heas...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/18/2012 03:46 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:53:10 +0800, Asias Heas

Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk

2012-06-21 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Asias He wrote: On 06/19/2012 02:21 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 06/19/2012 05:51 AM, Asias He wrote: On 06/18/2012 07:39 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 14:14 +0300, Dor Laor wrote: On 06/18/2012 01:05 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:03:23

Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk

2012-06-19 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/19/2012 05:51 AM, Asias He wrote: On 06/18/2012 07:39 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 14:14 +0300, Dor Laor wrote: On 06/18/2012 01:05 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:03:23 +0800, Asias Heas...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/18/2012 03:46 PM, Rusty Russell wrote

Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk

2012-06-18 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/18/2012 01:05 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:03:23 +0800, Asias Heas...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/18/2012 03:46 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:53:10 +0800, Asias Heas...@redhat.com wrote: This patch introduces bio-based IO path for virtio-blk. Why

Re: [PATCH v2 00/41] postcopy live migration

2012-06-05 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/04/2012 04:38 PM, Isaku Yamahata wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 08:37:04PM +0800, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 06/04/2012 05:57 PM, Isaku Yamahata wrote: After the long time, we have v2. This is qemu part. The linux kernel part is sent separatedly. Changes v1 - v2: - split up patches for

Re: [vmw_vmci RFC 00/11] VMCI for Linux

2012-05-16 Thread Dor Laor
On 05/16/2012 02:50 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:06:57AM -0700, Andrew Stiegmann (stieg) wrote: In an effort to improve the out-of-the-box experience with Linux kernels for VMware users, VMware is working on readying the Virtual Machine Communication Interface (vmw_vmci) and

oVirt Workshop at LinuxCon + kvm virt track Japan 2012

2012-05-10 Thread Dor Laor
FYI (mea culpa for semi-spamming): On early June LinuxCon Japan will host a virtualization track w/ some known faces and a parallel oVirt developer workshop in Japan. More details: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan/schedule Regards, Dor Original Message

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes April 3

2012-04-04 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/04/2012 01:37 PM, Michael Roth wrote: On Apr 4, 2012 2:42 AM, Paolo Bonzini pbonz...@redhat.com mailto:pbonz...@redhat.com wrote: Il 04/04/2012 03:18, Michael Roth ha scritto: Attacking the IDL/schema side first is the more rationale approach. From there we can potentially

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes April 3

2012-04-04 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/04/2012 02:52 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 04/04/2012 05:53 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 04/04/2012 01:37 PM, Michael Roth wrote: On Apr 4, 2012 2:42 AM, Paolo Bonzini pbonz...@redhat.com mailto:pbonz...@redhat.com wrote: Il 04/04/2012 03:18, Michael Roth ha scritto: Attacking the IDL

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes April 3

2012-04-03 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/03/2012 05:43 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: I'm afraid my notes are rather rough... * 1.1 soft freeze apr 15th (less than two weeks) hard freeze may 1 three months cycle for 1.2 stable machine types only every few releases? pc-next * Maintainers, got distracted and my notes

Re: Pe: [PATCH v5 1/3] virtio-scsi: first version

2012-02-13 Thread Dor Laor
On 02/13/2012 02:40 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Dor, James Co, On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 09:57 +0200, Dor Laor wrote: On 02/13/2012 09:05 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: On 12/02/12 21:16, James Bottomley wrote: Well, no-one's yet answered the question I had about why. Just to give

Re: Pe: [PATCH v5 1/3] virtio-scsi: first version

2012-02-12 Thread Dor Laor
On 02/13/2012 09:05 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: On 12/02/12 21:16, James Bottomley wrote: Well, no-one's yet answered the question I had about why. Just to give one example from a different angle: In the big datacenters tape libraries are still very important, and lots of them have a

Re: KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3

2012-01-03 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/03/2012 10:33 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:09:40PM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote: Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. Status of virtio drivers for Windows: * Unsupported in community today Why? * Bugs languish on bug

Re: [Qemu-devel] Better qemu/kvm defaults (was Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS)

2012-01-03 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/03/2012 05:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/01/2012 04:16 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 12/29/2011 06:16 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/29/2011 10:07 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 12/26/2011 11:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/26/2011 05:14 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: btw you can get

Re: [Qemu-devel] Better qemu/kvm defaults (was Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS)

2012-01-03 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/04/2012 12:45 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: When using 'guests-pick', we initially present the most compatible network model (rtl8139, for instance). We would provide a paravirtual channel (guest-agent?) that could be used to enumerate which models were available and let guest decide which

Re: [Qemu-devel] Better qemu/kvm defaults (was Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS)

2012-01-02 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/01/2012 04:01 PM, Ronen Hod wrote: On 01/01/2012 12:16 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 12/29/2011 06:16 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/29/2011 10:07 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 12/26/2011 11:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/26/2011 05:14 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: btw you can get an additional

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/21][RFC] postcopy live migration

2012-01-01 Thread Dor Laor
On 12/30/2011 12:39 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/28/2011 07:25 PM, Isaku Yamahata wrote: Intro = This patch series implements postcopy live migration.[1] As discussed at KVM forum 2011, dedicated character device is used for distributed shared memory between migration source and

Re: [Qemu-devel] Better qemu/kvm defaults (was Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS)

2012-01-01 Thread Dor Laor
On 12/29/2011 06:16 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/29/2011 10:07 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 12/26/2011 11:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/26/2011 05:14 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: btw you can get an additional speedup by enabling x2apic, for default_send_IPI_mask_logical(). In the host

Re: [PATCH 0/6][RFC] virtio-blk: Change I/O path from request to BIO

2012-01-01 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/01/2012 06:45 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Minchan Kimminc...@kernel.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:57:40PM +, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Minchan Kimminc...@kernel.org wrote: If you're stumped by the performance

Better qemu/kvm defaults (was Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS)

2011-12-29 Thread Dor Laor
On 12/26/2011 11:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/26/2011 05:14 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: btw you can get an additional speedup by enabling x2apic, for default_send_IPI_mask_logical(). In the host? In the host, for the guest: qemu -cpu ...,+x2apic It seems to me that we should

Re: [PATCH 0/5 V5] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stopped by host

2011-12-22 Thread Dor Laor
On 12/19/2011 07:59 PM, Amit Shah wrote: On (Mon) 19 Dec 2011 [14:59:36], Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/19/2011 02:52 PM, Amit Shah wrote: (snip) S4 needs some treatment, though, as resume after s4 doesn't work with kvmclock enabled. I didn't realise this series was only handling the soft lockup

Re: [PATCH 0/5 V5] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stopped by host

2011-12-11 Thread Dor Laor
On 12/07/2011 04:41 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/05/2011 10:18 PM, Eric B Munson wrote: Changes from V4: Rename KVM_GUEST_PAUSED to KVMCLOCK_GUEST_PAUSED Add description of KVMCLOCK_GUEST_PAUSED ioctl to api.txt Changes from V3: Include CC's on patch 3 Drop clear flag ioctl and have the

Re: KVM call agenda for November 8th

2011-11-08 Thread Dor Laor
On 11/07/2011 03:45 PM, Juan Quintela wrote: Hi Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. Null agenda - null call, hope to get some next week. Thanks, Juan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to

oVirt workshop links

2011-11-06 Thread Dor Laor
http://www.ovirt.org/ is a complete set of open source management code, specific for qemu/kvm. It is based on Red Hat's RHEV-M code which is our enterprise ready solution for VMs (now java based, no windows, thanks for asking). Beyond plenty of Red Hat developers, the project got the support

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for October 25

2011-10-25 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/25/2011 03:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 10/25/2011 07:35 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: Am 24.10.2011 13:35, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: On 10/24/2011 01:04 PM, Juan Quintela wrote: Hi Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. - What's left to merge for 1.0. I would

Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest freezes Refined TSC clocksource calibration ...

2011-10-02 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/02/2011 09:24 AM, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: Hi. :) On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 19:16, Onkar N Mahajankern...@gmail.com wrote: Compiled 3.1.0-rc3+ from source (see attached config file) and updated the host(fc14) kernel ; So host is now running 3.1.0-rc3+ Now I also want to try to boot

Re: -cpu core2duo still has no SSE4 support?

2011-09-15 Thread Dor Laor
On 09/15/2011 12:14 PM, Jun Koi wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Sasha Levinlevinsasha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 17:04 +0800, Jun Koi wrote: hi, i run kvm with -cpu core2duo option, but /proc/cpuinfo only shows SSE and SSE2. my host is Core i7, so i suppose that i

Re: [RFC] postcopy livemigration proposal

2011-08-08 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/08/2011 06:24 AM, Isaku Yamahata wrote: This mail is on Yabusame: Postcopy Live Migration for Qemu/KVM on which we'll give a talk at KVM-forum. The purpose of this mail is to letting developers know it in advance so that we can get better feedback on its design/implementation approach

Re: [RFC] postcopy livemigration proposal

2011-08-08 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/08/2011 01:59 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: * What's is postcopy livemigration It is is yet another live migration mechanism for Qemu/KVM, which implements the migration technique known as postcopy or lazy migration. Just after the migrate command is invoked, the execution host of a VM is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] postcopy livemigration proposal

2011-08-08 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/08/2011 03:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/08/2011 04:20 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 08/08/2011 06:24 AM, Isaku Yamahata wrote: This mail is on Yabusame: Postcopy Live Migration for Qemu/KVM on which we'll give a talk at KVM-forum. The purpose of this mail is to letting developers know

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] postcopy livemigration proposal

2011-08-08 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/08/2011 06:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/08/2011 10:36 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/08/2011 06:29 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: - Efficient, reduce needed traffic no need to re-send pages. It's not quite that simple. Post-copy needs to introduce a protocol capable of requesting

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stopped by host

2011-08-04 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/03/2011 05:24 PM, Eric B Munson wrote: This set is just a rough first pass at avoiding soft lockup warnings when a host pauses the execution of a guest. A flag is set by the host in the shared page used for the pvclock when the host goes to stop the guest. When the guest resumes and

Re: KVM autotest tip of the week - Running qemu-kvm unittests

2011-07-17 Thread Dor Laor
On 07/15/2011 04:12 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: Hi guys, due to some personal issues this week this tip came later than I wanted, but nevertheless, here it is: http://autotest.kernel.org/wiki/KVMAutotest/RunQemuUnittests Ever wanted to make kvm autotest to execute the qemu-kvm unittest

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for June 28

2011-07-05 Thread Dor Laor
I tried to re-arrange all of the requirements and use cases using this wiki page: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LiveBlockMigration It would be the best to agree upon the most interesting use cases (while we make sure we cover future ones) and agree to them. The next step is to set the

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for June 28

2011-07-05 Thread Dor Laor
On 07/05/2011 03:58 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:40:08PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Dor Laordl...@redhat.com wrote: I tried to re-arrange all of the requirements and use cases using this wiki page:

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for June 28

2011-07-05 Thread Dor Laor
On 07/05/2011 05:32 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 04:39:06PM +0300, Dor Laor wrote: On 07/05/2011 03:58 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:40:08PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Dor Laordl...@redhat.com wrote: I tried

Re: Time sync in KVM Guest

2011-06-23 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/23/2011 09:31 AM, Chaitra Gorantla wrote: Thanks for the information. Is there any way to calculate the delta between host and the guest? Use ntddate server The ntp server can either be on the host or anywhere else. On 06/22/2011 06:17 AM, Chaitra Gorantla wrote: Hi all, We are

Re: Time sync in KVM Guest

2011-06-22 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/22/2011 06:17 AM, Chaitra Gorantla wrote: Hi all, We are working on Fedora 15 Host. And the KVM is used to create Fedora 14 guest. The clock-source details are as below. Our Host supports constant_tsc. on HOST OS cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource tsc

Re: Why doesn't Intel e1000 NIC work correctly in Windows XP?

2011-06-20 Thread Dor Laor
Not sure it might help but IIRC the original e1000 driver for windows had some bugs that were fixed if you'll download the most recent driver from Intel site. This was the case for the fully emulated e1000 qemu device and might help here too. On 06/19/2011 03:29 PM, Flypen CloudMe wrote: Hi,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] live snapshot, live merge, live block migration

2011-05-17 Thread Dor Laor
On 05/16/2011 11:23 AM, Jagane Sundar wrote: Hello Dor, Let me see if I understand live snapshot correctly: If I want to configure a VM for daily backup, then I would do the following: - Create a snapshot s1. s0 is marked read-only. - Do a full backup of s0 on day 0. - On day 1, I would create

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] live snapshot, live merge, live block migration

2011-05-16 Thread Dor Laor
On 05/16/2011 12:38 AM, Jagane Sundar wrote: Hello Dor, One important advantage of live snapshot over live backup is support of multiple (consecutive) live snapshots while there can be only a single live backup at one time. This is why I tend to think that although live backup carry some

Re: KVM Forum 2011: Call For Participation

2011-05-16 Thread Dor Laor
The abstract submission deadline was originally set for today. The forum committee agreed to extend the deadline period until next Sunday, May 22. The notification date remains the same (May 31). Thanks, your KVM Forum 2011 Program Committee On 04/21/2011 08:21 PM,

Re: snapmirror functionality using qcow2 and rsync?

2011-05-15 Thread Dor Laor
On 05/15/2011 10:18 PM, Fred van Zwieten wrote: Hello Jagane, My original idea was this: Have a data disk implemented as an LV. Use drbd or dm-replicator to asynchronously replicate the vg to a remote location. When I make a snapshot of the LV, the snapshot will be It can work but it might be

Re: KVM, Entropy and Windows

2011-02-17 Thread Dor Laor
On 02/17/2011 12:09 PM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 11:11 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 02/16/2011 09:54 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Hello all, I believe I am hitting a problem on one of our Windows 2003 KVM guests were I believe it is running out of Entropy and causing SSL

Re: Freezing Windows 2008 x64bit guest

2010-12-13 Thread Dor Laor
On 12/13/2010 09:42 PM, Manfred Heubach wrote: Gleb Natapovglebat redhat.com writes: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:53:02AM +0300, Harri Olin wrote: Gleb Natapov wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:25:31AM +0300, Harri Olin wrote: Gleb Natapov kirjoitti: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:17:02AM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/21] Kemari for KVM 0.2

2010-11-29 Thread Dor Laor
On 11/29/2010 06:23 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura tamura.yoshi...@lab.ntt.co.jp wrote: 2010/11/29 Paul Brookp...@codesourcery.com: If devices incorrectly claim support for live migration, then that should also be fixed, either by removing the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-kvm: introduce cpu_start/cpu_stop commands

2010-11-23 Thread Dor Laor
On 11/23/2010 08:41 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/23/2010 01:00 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: qemu-kvm vcpu threads don't response to SIGSTOP/SIGCONT. Instead of teaching them to respond to these signals, introduce monitor commands that stop and start individual vcpus. The purpose of these commands

Fwd: [PATCH]: An implementation of HyperV KVP functionality

2010-11-14 Thread Dor Laor
FYI. Long ago we discussed key value approach on top of virtio-serial. Original Message Subject: [PATCH]: An implementation of HyperV KVP functionality Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:03:10 -0700 From: Ky Srinivasan ksriniva...@novell.com To: de...@driverdev.osuosl.org,

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-21 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/21/2010 12:22 PM, Andrew Beekhof wrote: On 10/20/2010 02:16 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 10/20/2010 10:21 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 19.10.2010, at 17:14, Chris Wright wrote: Guest Agent - have one coming RSN (poke Anthony for details) Would there be a chance to have a single agent

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-21 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/21/2010 03:02 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 10/21/2010 02:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 10/21/2010 03:14 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: I agree that some agent code for basic stuff like live snapshot sync with the filesystem is small enough and worth to host within qemu. Maybe we do need

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-20 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/20/2010 10:21 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 19.10.2010, at 17:14, Chris Wright wrote: 0.13.X -stable - Anthony will send note to qemu-devel on this - move 0.13.X -stable to a separate tree - driven independently of main qemu tree - challenge is always in the porting and testing of

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-20 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/20/2010 03:21 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 10/20/2010 08:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: The thinking with Matahari is that there is significant overlap between agent requirements for a physical and virtual host, so it aims to provide an agent that works everywhere, whether virtualized

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Oct 19

2010-10-19 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/19/2010 04:11 AM, Chris Wright wrote: * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. - 0.13.X -stable handoff - 0.14 planning - threadlet work - virtfs proposals - Live snapshots - We were asked to add this feature for

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Oct 19

2010-10-19 Thread Dor Laor
On 10/19/2010 02:55 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 10/19/2010 02:48 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 10/19/2010 04:11 AM, Chris Wright wrote: * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. - 0.13.X -stable handoff - 0.14 planning - threadlet

Re: RHEL 4.5 guest virtual network performace

2010-08-16 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/16/2010 10:00 PM, Alex Rixhardson wrote: Hi guys, I have the following configuration: 1. host is RHEL 5.5, 64bit with KVM (version that comes out of the box with RHEL 5.5) 2. two guests: 2a: RHEL 5.5, 32bit, 2b: RHEL 4.5, 64bit If I run iperf between host RHEL 5.5 and guest RHEL 5.5

Re: RHEL 4.5 guest virtual network performace

2010-08-16 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/17/2010 12:22 AM, Alex Rixhardson wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I tried with the netperf. I ran netserver on host and netperf on RHEL 5.5 and RHEL 4.5 guests. This are the results of 60 seconds long tests: RHEL 4.5 guest: Throughput (10^6bits/sec) = 145.80 At least it bought you

Re: RHEL 4.5 guest virtual network performace

2010-08-16 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/17/2010 12:51 AM, Alex Rixhardson wrote: I tried with 'notsc divider=10' (since it's 64 bit guest), but the results are the still same :-(. The guest is idle at the time of testing. It has 2 CPU and 1024 MB RAM available. Hmm, are you using e1000 or virtio for the 4.5 guest? e1000 should

Re: KVM Processor cache size

2010-08-03 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/03/2010 02:36 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/02/2010 05:42 PM, Andre Przywara wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/02/2010 08:49 AM, Ulrich Drepper wrote: glibc uses the cache size information returned by cpuid to perform optimizations. For instance, copy operations which would pollute

Re: bad O_DIRECT read and write performance with small block sizes with virtio

2010-08-03 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/02/2010 11:50 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Anthony Liguorianth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: On 08/02/2010 12:15 PM, John Leach wrote: Hi, I've come across a problem with read and write disk IO performance when using O_DIRECT from within a kvm guest. With

Re: [PATCH] KVM test: Disable HPET on windows timedrift tests

2010-07-04 Thread Dor Laor
On 07/01/2010 07:05 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:42 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/30/2010 06:39 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: By default, HPET is enabled on qemu and no time drift mitigation is being made for it. So, add -no-hpet if qemu supports it,

Re: KSM For All Via LD_PRELOAD?

2010-06-10 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/09/2010 01:31 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 06/09/2010 09:56 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Or is this too crazy an idea? It should work. Note that the the malloced memory should be aligned in order to get better sharing. Within glibc malloc large blocks are mmaped, so they are automatically

Re: KSM For All Via LD_PRELOAD?

2010-06-09 Thread Dor Laor
On 06/08/2010 09:43 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Is this plausible? I'm trying to work out if it's even worth considering this approach to enable all memory used by in a system to be open to KSM page merging, rather than only memory used by specific programs aware of it (e.g. kvm/qemu). Something

Re: Copy and paste feature across guest and host

2010-05-27 Thread Dor Laor
On 05/27/2010 12:17 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Just installed Fedora13 as guest on KVM. However there is no cross-platform copy and paste feature. I trust I have setup this feature on other guest sometime before. Unfortunately I can't the relevant document. Could you please shed me some

Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: put last seen used index into ring itself

2010-05-05 Thread Dor Laor
On 05/05/2010 11:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Generally, the Host end of the virtio ring doesn't need to see where Guest is up to in consuming the ring. However, to completely understand what's going on from the outside, this information must be exposed. For example, host can reduce the

Re: KVM call agenda for Apr 27

2010-04-27 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/27/2010 11:14 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 04/27/2010 01:36 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: A few comments: 1) The problem was not block watermark itself but generating a notification on the watermark threshold. It's a heuristic and should be implemented based on polling block stats. Polling

Re: KVM call agenda for Apr 27

2010-04-27 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/27/2010 11:56 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 04/27/2010 11:48 AM, Dor Laor wrote: Here's another option: an nbd-like protocol that remotes all BlockDriver operations except read and write over a unix domain socket. The open operation returns an fd (SCM_RIGHTS strikes again) that is used

Re: KVM call agenda for Apr 27

2010-04-27 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/27/2010 12:22 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 04/27/2010 12:08 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 04/27/2010 11:56 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 04/27/2010 11:48 AM, Dor Laor wrote: Here's another option: an nbd-like protocol that remotes all BlockDriver operations except read and write over a unix domain

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1

2010-04-25 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/23/2010 10:36 AM, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote: On 04/23/2010 02:17 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: Dor Laor wrote: [...] Second, even if it wasn't the case, the tsc delta and kvmclock are synchronized as part of the VM state so there is no use of trapping it in the middle. I should

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1

2010-04-22 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/21/2010 08:57 AM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: Hi all, We have been implementing the prototype of Kemari for KVM, and we're sending this message to share what we have now and TODO lists. Hopefully, we would like to get early feedback to keep us in the right direction. Although advanced

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1

2010-04-22 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/22/2010 01:35 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: Dor Laor wrote: On 04/21/2010 08:57 AM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: Hi all, We have been implementing the prototype of Kemari for KVM, and we're sending this message to share what we have now and TODO lists. Hopefully, we would like to get early

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1

2010-04-22 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/22/2010 04:16 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: 2010/4/22 Dor Laordl...@redhat.com: On 04/22/2010 01:35 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: Dor Laor wrote: On 04/21/2010 08:57 AM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: Hi all, We have been implementing the prototype of Kemari for KVM, and we're sending

Re: Timedrift in KVM guests after livemigration.

2010-04-19 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/19/2010 12:29 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:21:47AM +0200, Espen Berg wrote: Den 18.04.2010 11:56, skrev Gleb Natapov: That's two different things here: The issue that Espen is reporting is that the hosts have different frequency and guests that relay on the tsc as

Re: Timedrift in KVM guests after livemigration.

2010-04-18 Thread Dor Laor
On 04/18/2010 02:21 AM, Espen Berg wrote: Den 17.04.2010 22:17, skrev Michael Tokarev: We have three KVM hosts that supports live-migration between them, but one of our problems is time drifting. The three frontends has different CPU frequency and the KVM guests adopt the frequency from the

Re: Time and KVM - best practices

2010-03-22 Thread Dor Laor
On 03/21/2010 01:29 PM, Thomas Løcke wrote: Hey, What is considered best practice when running a KVM host with a mixture of Linux and Windows guests? Currently I have ntpd running on the host, and I start my guests using -rtc base=localhost,clock=host, with an extra -tdf added for Windows

Re: About KVM Forum 2010

2010-03-22 Thread Dor Laor
On 03/17/2010 07:37 AM, kazushi takahashi wrote: Hi all Does anybody know exact important date, such as paper deadline for KVM Forum 2010? It's not yet official and Chris Wright will publish the dates but last we talked it was about asking for pretty simple abstracts (a paragraph or two,

Re: Make QEmu HPET disabled by default for KVM?

2010-03-14 Thread Dor Laor
On 03/14/2010 09:10 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:05:50AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/11/2010 09:08 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: I have kept --no-hpet in my setup for months... Any details about the problems? HPET is important to some guests. As Gleb mentioned in

Re: Make QEmu HPET disabled by default for KVM?

2010-03-14 Thread Dor Laor
On 03/14/2010 12:27 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/14/2010 12:23 PM, Dor Laor wrote: On 03/14/2010 09:10 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:05:50AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/11/2010 09:08 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: I have kept --no-hpet in my setup for months... Any

Re: Recommended network driver for a windows KVM guest

2010-02-18 Thread Dor Laor
On 02/17/2010 12:51 PM, carlopmart wrote: Hi all, I need to install several windows KVM (rhel5.4 host fully updated) guests for iSCSI boot. iSCSI servers are Solaris/OpenSolaris storage servers and I need to boot windows guests (2008R2 and Win7) using gpxe. Can i use virtio net dirver during

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] KVM test: Control files automatic generation to save memory

2010-02-14 Thread Dor Laor
On 02/14/2010 07:07 PM, Michael Goldish wrote: - Lucas Meneghel Rodriguesl...@redhat.com wrote: As our configuration system generates a list of dicts with test parameters, and that list might be potentially *very* large, keeping all this information in memory might be a problem for

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add definitions for current cpu models..

2010-01-25 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/21/2010 05:05 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/20/2010 07:18 PM, john cooper wrote: Chris Wright wrote: * Daniel P. Berrange (berra...@redhat.com) wrote: To be honest all possible naming schemes for '-cpuname' are just as unfriendly as each other. The only user friendly option is '-cpu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add definitions for current cpu models..

2010-01-25 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/25/2010 04:21 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/25/2010 03:08 AM, Dor Laor wrote: qemu-config.[ch], taking a new command line that parses the argument via QemuOpts, then passing the parsed options to a target-specific function that then builds the table of supported cpus. It should just

Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

2010-01-07 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/06/2010 05:16 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/06/2010 08:48 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 01/06/2010 04:32 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/06/2010 04:22 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: We can probably default -enable-kvm to -cpu host, as long as we explain very carefully that if users wish

Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

2010-01-07 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/07/2010 10:18 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/07/2010 10:03 AM, Dor Laor wrote: We can debate about the exact name/model to represent the Nehalem family, I don't have an issue with that and actually Intel and Amd should define it. AMD and Intel already defined their names (in cat /proc

Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

2010-01-07 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/07/2010 11:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/07/2010 11:11 AM, Dor Laor wrote: On 01/07/2010 10:18 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/07/2010 10:03 AM, Dor Laor wrote: We can debate about the exact name/model to represent the Nehalem family, I don't have an issue with that and actually Intel

Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

2010-01-07 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/07/2010 01:39 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/07/2010 03:40 AM, Dor Laor wrote: There's no simple solution except to restrict features to what was available on the first processors. What's not simple about the above 4 options? What's a better alternative (that insures users understand

Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

2010-01-07 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/07/2010 02:00 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/07/2010 01:44 PM, Dor Laor wrote: So if you had a 2.6.18 kernel and a 2.6.33 kernel, it may be necessary to say: (2.6.33) qemu -cpu Nehalem,-syscall (2.6.18) qemu -cpu Nehalem Or let qemu do it automatically for you. qemu on 2.6.33 doesn't

Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

2010-01-07 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/07/2010 03:14 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/07/2010 06:40 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/07/2010 02:33 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: There's another option. Make cpuid information part of live migration protocol, and then support something like -cpu Xeon-3550. We would remember the exact

Re: The HPET issue on Linux

2010-01-06 Thread Dor Laor
On 01/06/2010 12:09 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:48:52PM +0800, Sheng Yang wrote: Hi Beth I still found the emulated HPET would result in some boot failure. For example, on my 2.6.30, with HPET enabled, the kernel would fail check_timer(), especially in timer_irq_works().

Re: [Autotest] [KVM-autotest][RFC] 32/32 PAE bit guest system definition

2009-12-16 Thread Dor Laor
On 12/15/2009 09:04 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jiri Zupkajzu...@redhat.com wrote: Hello, we write KSM_overcommit test. If we calculate memory for guest we need to know which architecture is Guest. If it is a 32b or 32b with PAE or 64b system. Because

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