Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2009-05-30 Thread Amit Shah
Hi Pablo, On (Fri) May 29 2009 [11:41:58], Passera, Pablo R wrote: Hi Amit, Please correct me if I am wrong, but the fact that the PVDMA module is located in the guest imposes a security problem. So, if someone in the guest has root access, he could modify the PVDMA module and

RE: Status of pci passthrough work?

2009-05-29 Thread Passera, Pablo R
. Do you think this is possible? Thanks, Pablo -Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Amit Shah Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:38 AM To: Passera, Pablo R Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Status of pci passthrough work? On (Fri

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2009-05-15 Thread Amit Shah
Hello, On (Thu) May 14 2009 [11:08:29], Passera, Pablo R wrote: Amit, I trying to use PVDMA. I've downloaded a kernel snapshot from the your kvm git, but I couldn't download a snapshot or the repo from your kvm-userspace tree. I tried to launch the VM using kvm-85 user space but it

RE: Status of pci passthrough work?

2009-05-15 Thread Passera, Pablo R
: Status of pci passthrough work? Hello, On (Thu) May 14 2009 [11:08:29], Passera, Pablo R wrote: Amit, I trying to use PVDMA. I've downloaded a kernel snapshot from the your kvm git, but I couldn't download a snapshot or the repo from your kvm-userspace tree. I tried to launch the VM using

RE: Status of pci passthrough work?

2009-05-14 Thread Passera, Pablo R
you have the userspace patches for PVDMA? Thanks, Pablo -Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Amit Shah Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:07 PM To: xming Cc: Thomas Fjellstrom; kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Status of pci

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-12-16 Thread xming
It's usable; but not ported to newer kernel versions. I can't say when I'll get around doing it. In the meanwhile if someone else is interested, drop me a line. Do you mean interested in porting to newer versions (kvm + kernel) or interested in to use pvdma? If it's the latter, I am. -- To

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-12-16 Thread Amit Shah
Hello, - xming xming...@gmail.com wrote: When can we expect pvdma updates? Is it ever going to be merged into mainline kvm? The pvdma tree at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/amit/kvm.git;a=shortlog;h=pvdma is based of an older Linux version. It's usable; but not ported to

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-28 Thread Amit Shah
* On Saturday 27 Sep 2008 13:27:46 Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: Hi Thomas, the patches of passthrough/VT-d on kvm.git are already checked in. With Amit's

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-28 Thread Amit Shah
* On Sunday 28 Sep 2008 10:09:13 Avi Kivity wrote: Jan C. Bernauer wrote: Hi, I have about the same problem, so excuse me for hijacking this thread. My hardware consists of a 780g/SB700 Mainboard and a 4850e AMD CPU, and I'm interested in forwarding a DVB-C tuner card to the guest.

RE: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Han, Weidong
Hi Thomas, the patches of passthrough/VT-d on kvm.git are already checked in. With Amit's userspace patches, you can assign device to guest. You can have a try. Randy (Weidong) Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I'm very interested in being able to pass a few devices through to kvm guests. I'm

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: Hi Thomas, the patches of passthrough/VT-d on kvm.git are already checked in. With Amit's userspace patches, you can assign device to guest. You can have a try. Does that mean I need VT-d support in hardware? All I have to test with right

RE: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Han, Weidong
Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: Hi Thomas, the patches of passthrough/VT-d on kvm.git are already checked in. With Amit's userspace patches, you can assign device to guest. You can have a try. Does that mean I need VT-d support in hardware? All

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: Hi Thomas, the patches of passthrough/VT-d on kvm.git are already checked in. With Amit's userspace patches, you can assign device to guest. You can have a

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Jan C. Bernauer
Hi, I have about the same problem, so excuse me for hijacking this thread. My hardware consists of a 780g/SB700 Mainboard and a 4850e AMD CPU, and I'm interested in forwarding a DVB-C tuner card to the guest. Maybe some NICs later. I tried and 'sort of' got it working with Amit's kernel and

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Jan C. Bernauer wrote: Hi, I have about the same problem, so excuse me for hijacking this thread. My hardware consists of a 780g/SB700 Mainboard and a 4850e AMD CPU, and I'm interested in forwarding a DVB-C tuner card to the guest. Maybe some NICs later. I

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Jan C. Bernauer
Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: How did you manage to pull together those patches? They all seem so old, and won't likely apply cleanly to git head :( Which patches do you mean? The patches for kvm? There is a nice repository managed by Amit Shah: Linux source:

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Jan C. Bernauer wrote: Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: So I've checked out both of those trees and used head, and kvm-userspace is erroring out: gcc -I. -I.. -I/root/kvm-amit-userspace/qemu/target-i386 -I/root/kvm-amit- userspace/qemu -MMD -MT qemu-kvm-x86.o -MP

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Jan C. Bernauer
Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: that leaves me with: /root/kvm-amit-userspace/qemu/../libkvm/libkvm.h:28: warning: âstruct kvm_msr_entryâ declared inside parameter list

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Jan C. Bernauer wrote: Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: that leaves me with: /root/kvm-amit-userspace/qemu/../libkvm/libkvm.h:28: warning: âstruct kvm_msr_entryâ declared inside parameter list /root/kvm-amit-userspace/qemu/../libkvm/libkvm.h:28: warning: its scope

Re: Status of pci passthrough work?

2008-09-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Jan C. Bernauer wrote: Hi, I have about the same problem, so excuse me for hijacking this thread. My hardware consists of a 780g/SB700 Mainboard and a 4850e AMD CPU, and I'm interested in forwarding a DVB-C tuner card to the guest. Maybe some NICs later. I tried and 'sort of' got it working