Missing symlink in qemu-kvm.git?

2009-04-29 Thread walt
When building on x86 I get this error: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/wa1ter/src/qemu-kvm/kvm/libkvm' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/home/wa1ter/src/qemu-kvm/kvm/kernel/include/asm/kvm.h', needed by `libkvm.o'. I fixed it by adding the same symlink that I add to Linus's kernel.git for

Re: qemu-kvm.git now live

2009-04-23 Thread walt
Avi Kivity wrote: After a lengthy testing phase, qemu-kvm.git has replaced kvm-userspace.git as the source repository for kvm userspace development. Differences from kvm-userspace.git are as follows: - everything under qemu/ has been moved to the top-level directory - everything not under qemu/

Re: kvm-82

2009-01-16 Thread walt
Gioacchino Mendola wrote: Hello everyone, I hope my questions will not be too trivial! I downloaded and compiled KVM-82 but I have trouble loading the modules.The message error is as follows: insmod: error inserting 'kvm.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module Why can not I load the modules? p.s i

Re: KVM-82 failed to compile

2009-01-02 Thread walt
Simon Gao wrote: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: has your kernel configuration (/usr/src/linux/.config) the following enabled? CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER=y I did not see the config parameter in my .config file, only has: CONFIG_MMU=y # CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER is not set Is there other

Re: 'make' is no longer producing *.ko files?

2008-12-30 Thread walt
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Michael Park wrote: Hello, I'm running into a strange problem of 'make' not producing any *.ko files recently (kvm-82). This seems rather odd, as 'make' still completes successfully (echo $? returns 0), and there are *.o files that are output as a result. I've done

FreeBSD guest on Linux host: console screen corruption?

2008-12-09 Thread walt
Hi, I'm tracking kvm.git on a linux host, current as of today. I've been playing with FreeBSD as guest and I'm seeing very annoying problems with console screen corruption which makes it almost impossible to use. The corruption consists of patches of screen output where every other character is

Re: Keyboard issues with KVM-80

2008-12-07 Thread walt
Mark Bidewell wrote: I just tried KVM-80, am I am running into keyboard issues. The arrow keys to not function properly and using a CentOS5 guest the up arrow brings up the Save screenshot dialog in gnome. That annoying screenshot problem is caused by the evdev driver in xorg. I fix it by

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-img commit -- is there a limit on file sizes?

2008-12-01 Thread walt
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: We've started getting some reports of corruption on commit in KVM. There is a long standing disk corruption issue too that is very difficult to reproduce. The thinking is that there is a bug somewhere in the qcow2 code.

Re: Is this a bug in qemu-img?

2008-11-24 Thread walt
walt wrote: ... BTW, I've been through the same steps twice and get the same results, so I don't think it's flakey hardware. OTOH today is a new day, so I'll try it again to triple check. Tried again all the way from the beginning and got the same result. The commit step is where things go

Re: Is this a bug in qemu-img?

2008-11-23 Thread walt
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Avi Kivity wrote: walt wrote: I do a fresh install of Windows vista on qcow2 which works perfectly. Thereafter I use that image as a backing file to make all kinds of updates to Vista, and all that works perfectly too. Then I use 'qemu-img commit' to commit

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use writeback caching by default with qcow2

2008-11-20 Thread walt
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Avi Kivity wrote: Thomas Mueller wrote: Right now, qcow2 isn't a reliable format regardless of the type of cache your using because metadata is not updated in the correct order. so you don't advise to use qcow2 as a VBD or what do you mean with isn't

Re: qcow2 slowdown in kvm-78,79

2008-11-19 Thread walt
Anthony Liguori wrote: Ryan Harper wrote: * Henrik Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-18 08:42]: The bundled qemu in kvm-78 and kvm-79 slows down disk i/o with qcow2 images by an order of 10. If one got 60MB/s before, one gets around 6MB/s with 78 and 79 (measured with dd) dd command? what's

Commit d6469f30 breaks Vista guest

2008-11-18 Thread walt
commit d6469f30cc25d3ead7305ec8ccc6a98352227e81 Author: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun May 18 11:36:42 2008 +0300 kvm: qemu: regenerate bios for ACPI _SUN method Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/qemu/pc-bios/bios.bin b/qemu/pc-bios/bios.bin index

Re: Latest kvm.git versus Windows Vista?

2008-11-14 Thread walt
walt wrote: ... So, does anyone have Vista working on recent kvm.git? Yes. I do, but only because I forgot to load the kvm-amd kernel module. I guess that means I'm really running Vista on plain qemu, and not on kvm at all. Is that correct? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Latest kvm.git versus Windows Vista?

2008-11-13 Thread walt
I see that the last post about Vista was exactly a month ago, and nothing since then. I've tried installing Vista using today's kvm.git on both 32-bit and 64-bit linux machines and failed both times, but with very different results. The common denominator between 64-bit and 32-bit linux seems

Re: Preventing conflicts between kernel header versions?

2008-11-10 Thread walt
walt wrote: Hi kvm team, I'm tracking Linus.git, kvm.git, and VirtualBox.svn, among other open source projects. I'm finding a conflict between kvm.git and VirtualBox.svn over the version of my linux kernel headers... Well, I just discovered the --with-patched-kernel flag, which fixes my

Preventing conflicts between kernel header versions?

2008-11-08 Thread walt
Hi kvm team, I'm tracking Linus.git, kvm.git, and VirtualBox.svn, among other open source projects. I'm finding a conflict between kvm.git and VirtualBox.svn over the version of my linux kernel headers. Specifically, kvm wants the files asm/kvm_para.h (and friends), but apparently looks in

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix vmalloc regression

2008-11-07 Thread walt
Glauber Costa wrote: Nick, This is the whole set of patches I was talking about. Patch 3 is the one that in fact fixes the problem... Yep, patch 3 works for me, thanks. Only the 32-bit kernel seems to need the patch, FWIW. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in