Re: RE: Some more basic questions..

2014-06-12 Thread Marcus White
One more bump:) MW.. On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Marcus White roastedseawee...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Just a bump to see if anyone can help:) MW On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Marcus White roastedseawee...@gmail.com wrote: Cant the pages be locked down by the host when it gets

Re: RE: Some more basic questions..

2014-06-04 Thread Marcus White
Hello Just a bump to see if anyone can help:) MW On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Marcus White roastedseawee...@gmail.com wrote: Cant the pages be locked down by the host when it gets the call down for an operation with a buffer(like if a usual user mode process case), and once locked down

Re: RE: Some more basic questions..

2014-06-03 Thread Marcus White
...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Zhang Haoyu Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 4:30 PM To: Venkateswara Rao Nandigam; Marcus White Cc: kvm Subject: Re: RE: Some more basic questions.. A few additional questions:) 1. If IO to a block device goes through QEMU and not vhost

Re: Some more basic questions..

2014-06-02 Thread Marcus White
A few additional questions:) 1. If IO to a block device goes through QEMU and not vhost, are there data copies between kernel and user mode if I do IO to a block device or is it zero copy? Kind of related to Question (2) also. 2. A related question to (1), is the QEMU process separate from the

Re: Some more basic questions..

2014-06-02 Thread Marcus White
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Zhang Haoyu zhan...@sangfor.com wrote: A few additional questions:) 1. If IO to a block device goes through QEMU and not vhost, are there data copies between kernel and user mode if I do IO to a block device or is it zero copy? Kind of related to Question (2) also.

Re: Some more basic questions..

2014-05-29 Thread Marcus White
Thanks Zhang and Venkateshwara, some more follow up questions below:) 1. Does -realtime mlock=on allocate all the memory upfront and keep it for the VM, or does it just make sure the memory that is allocated within the guest is not swapped out under host memory pressure? 2. I notice on a 4G

Some more basic questions..

2014-05-28 Thread Marcus White
Hello, Some more basic questions.. 1. How can I ensure that memory for the a guest is available and reserved? In other words, I bring up a Linux VM which has 4G allocated, I want to make sure it has all the 4G available right away. I saw references to balloon driver, it seemed like that was more

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2014-04-17 Thread Marcus White
Hello, I had some basic questions regarding KVM, and would appreciate any help:) I have been reading about the KVM architecture, and as I understand it, the guest shows up as a regular process in the host itself.. I had some questions around that.. 1. Are the guest processes

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2014-04-14 Thread Marcus White
Hello, A friendly bump to see if anyone has any ideas:-) Cheers! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Marcus White roastedseawee...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I had some basic questions regarding KVM, and would appreciate any help:) I have been reading about the KVM architecture, and as I

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2014-04-13 Thread Marcus White
Hello, I had some basic questions regarding KVM, and would appreciate any help:) I have been reading about the KVM architecture, and as I understand it, the guest shows up as a regular process in the host itself.. I had some questions around that.. 1. Are the guest processes implemented as a

Re: kvm (qemu) speed virtio

2014-02-04 Thread Marcus
We may have seen this as well. Initial speed tests were actually pretty good, but after running a few IO test it would actually cause the physical disks that were dedicated to the windows vm host side to be stuck at 100% util with no throughput for 30 seconds at a time according to iostat. We were

Re: troubleshoot live migration

2014-01-16 Thread Marcus Sorensen
minutes later seem to have no problem) Migrate, and the vm should become unusable. You may be lucky enough to get console/serial output complaining about lapic, or it may just consume cpu On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Marcus Sorensen shadow...@gmail.com wrote: Just an update, I found

Re: troubleshoot live migration

2014-01-15 Thread Marcus Sorensen
Just an update, I found that with different tools I was able to see a repeating 'lapic increasing min_delta_ns' scrolling furiously. I've added -no-hpet to the cmdline, but was still able to replicate it. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Marcus Sorensen shadow...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone

troubleshoot live migration

2014-01-14 Thread Marcus Sorensen
Does anyone have tips on troubleshooting live migration? I'm not sure if this should be a qemu question or a kvm one. I've got several E5-2650 servers running in test environment, kernel 3.10.26 and qemu 1.7.0. If I start a VM guest (say ubuntu, debian, or centos), I can migrate it around from