Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-17 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:55:25AM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hi, > > just to let You know, with realtek instead of virtio-net, it seems > to be reachable for almost three days.. I'd give it another day, then we > can be pretty sure it's virtio related... > Thanks. Interesting. Copying virtio

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-17 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hi, just to let You know, with realtek instead of virtio-net, it seems to be reachable for almost three days.. I'd give it another day, then we can be pretty sure it's virtio related... BR nik -- - Ing. Nikola CIPRICH LinuxBox.cz, s.r.o. 28.rijna 168, 709 00

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-17 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:22:38PM -0700, Peter Kieser wrote: > Does the host system support constant_tsc? Check /proc/cpuinfo. It > could be that too many ticks are being lost in the guest. > Window2008 will not use TSC as a time source while running as a guest. > -Peter > > On 2013-07-15 4:54

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-17 Thread Peter Kieser
Does the host system support constant_tsc? Check /proc/cpuinfo. It could be that too many ticks are being lost in the guest. -Peter On 2013-07-15 4:54 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Hi, It is sound and _hardware_ not sure why MS separated sound from HW :) OK, I'll check it Try it and see if it

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-15 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hi, > It is sound and _hardware_ not sure why MS separated sound from HW :) OK, I'll check it > Try it and see if it changes anything. When you say it becomes > unreachable over network what does it mean? Network share disappears or > you could ping it before but cannot any more? OK, I'll report

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-15 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:56:41AM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hello Gleb, > > please note, it's windows 2008, not windows8, not sure whether there's > some significant difference, though.. > Heh, indeed. I wonder where I get this windows8 thing from. Windows 2008 is a server OS so much less t

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-15 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello Gleb, please note, it's windows 2008, not windows8, not sure whether there's some significant difference, though.. > Disable device powersave: > - Control Panel -> Network & Internet -> Network Connections > - Right-click on desired interface, and select "Properties" > - Click the "Configur

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-12 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 02:08:31PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > > This is cirrus, not qxl. This makes my S3 theory to be highly unlikely. > > OK, finally I got it hung again: > > virsh # qemu-monitor-command vmtop09 --hmp "info status" > VM status: running > So confirmed, this is not S3, but s

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-12 Thread Nikola Ciprich
> This is cirrus, not qxl. This makes my S3 theory to be highly unlikely. OK, finally I got it hung again: virsh # qemu-monitor-command vmtop09 --hmp "info status" VM status: running nik > > -- > Gleb. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm"

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-11 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:31:20PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > > AFAIK this is default Windows2008 behaviour in case S3 is supported by > > the platform. But KVM supports S3 for Windows2008 guests only with QXL > > display, so this raises the question: what is qemu command line on > > the machin

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-11 Thread Nikola Ciprich
> AFAIK this is default Windows2008 behaviour in case S3 is supported by > the platform. But KVM supports S3 for Windows2008 guests only with QXL > display, so this raises the question: what is qemu command line on > the machine that it happens to and on the host where it does not happen. machine

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-11 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:06:19PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hello Gleb, > > well, I'm not windows expert at all, but it shouldn't be. > same instalation on different host works without problem... AFAIK this is default Windows2008 behaviour in case S3 is supported by the platform. But KVM su

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-11 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello Gleb, well, I'm not windows expert at all, but it shouldn't be. same instalation on different host works without problem... what could be worth noting is that CPU usage of qemu process drops to zero when this happens, otherwise windows guests eat quite a lot of CPU time even when "idle". Ma

Re: windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-11 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 01:23:48PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to solve strange issue with windows2008 VM under KVM. > It seems to be somehow "falling asleep" after some time, becoming unreachable > over network. However connecting to qemu VNC immediately makes windows > r

windows 2008 "falling asleep" under KVM

2013-07-11 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello, I'm trying to solve strange issue with windows2008 VM under KVM. It seems to be somehow "falling asleep" after some time, becoming unreachable over network. However connecting to qemu VNC immediately makes windows reachable again... I wonder whether this is the same issue? http://lists.n