Re: ATA Trim for qcow(2)

2011-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:35:45PM +0100, Emil Langrock wrote: > there is support for ext4 to use the trim ATA command when a block is freed. > I > read that there should be an extra command which does that freeing > afterwards. > So is it possible to use that information inside the qcow to mar

Re: kvm problem: bonding network interface breaks dhcp

2009-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 04:45:48PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I am trying to use a bonding network interface as a bridge > for a virtual machine (kvm). Host and guest are both running > 2.6.31.5. Problem: The guest does not receive the DHCPOFFER > reply sent by my dhcp server. There is no such p

Re: KVM on Debian

2009-06-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:37:54PM -0700, Aaron Clausen wrote: > I'm running a production Debian Lenny server using KVM to run a couple > of Windows and a couple of Linux guests. All is working well, but I > want to give my Server 2003 guest access to a SCSI tape drive. > Unfortunately, Debian is

Re: bridges

2009-05-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 08:57:03AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm trying to understand bridging with KVM, but am still puzzled. > I think that the recommended bridging with TAP means that packets from > the VM will end up going out the host card attached to the default > gateway. But it looks to

DMA errors in guest caused by corrupted(?) disk image

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
Hi, I've just come across a somewhat strange problem that was suggested I report to the list. The problem manifested itself as DMA errors and the like popping up in the guest, like I'd expect to see if a disk in a physical machine was dying, like this: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21

Re: Can i shrink the image file size?

2009-03-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:12:13PM +1100, Ross McKay wrote: > John Wong wrote: > > >I create the 30G qcow2 image file, installed winxp, winxp show me the > >harddisk used 5G, but the image file size is 12G now. > >can i shrink the image file size? how? > >my kvm version is: "kvm-84", qemu version