Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-13

2007-02-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:46:17AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > >Thanks for the analysis, this problem is understood. Avi commited a > >fix for -14 a few days back, but the fix re-breaks > >--kerneldir. Reenabling --kerneldir is simple - see attached patch - > >but since this

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-13

2007-02-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/19/07, Omar Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > That does not explain why the change you made (from ?= to :=) made any > > difference. Could you send a full log of ./configure && make && make > > install with and without your change? > > > > We

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:55 +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > >> Howdy Anthony, >> >> >>> Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target. The main difference >>> between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target >>> does not have any of the dyngen infrastru

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:55 +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > Howdy Anthony, > > > Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target. The main difference > > between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target > > does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure. This means that it will > > b

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-14 release

2007-02-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Avi Kivity a écrit : > Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> The bad news is that kvm-14 seems to be a lot slower than kvm-12 + >> modules from kernel 2.6.20. This is the case with a GNU/kFreeBSD guest. >> kvm-12 was about 1.5 time faster than qemu + kqemu. kvm-20 is slower >> than qemu without kqemu... >> >> D

Re: [kvm-devel] exception 12

2007-02-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Andreas Hasenack wrote: >> This looks like another case of missing real mode emulation on Intel >> hosts. If you have access to an AMD machine with svm support, you might >> try it on that to confirm. >> > > I don't, sorry. > > Ok. I'll try it later on. -- error compiling committee.c:

Re: [kvm-devel] exception 12

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Hasenack
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:54:53 Avi Kivity wrote: > Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > kernel 2.6.20 vanilla > > kvm 14 kernel modules and userspace + "qemu kvm target" patch > > everything built with gcc 4 > > > > Is this supposed to work? The vdisk.img was created with qemu-img > > following the ho

Re: [kvm-devel] exception 12

2007-02-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Andreas Hasenack wrote: > kernel 2.6.20 vanilla > kvm 14 kernel modules and userspace + "qemu kvm target" patch > everything built with gcc 4 > > Is this supposed to work? The vdisk.img was created with qemu-img following > the howto (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO). I don't have the iso fo

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Can you wait on that? I'll submit a better one tonight. It was just > an RFC :-) > Ok. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: That kills the -no-kvm switch, which allows a single binary to be used both with and without kvm. Or do you think both target-i386+kvm and target-kvm ought to be kept? >>> >>> I meant here: target-i386 (with kvm support)

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>> That kills the -no-kvm switch, which allows a single binary to be >>> used both with and without kvm. Or do you think both >>> target-i386+kvm and target-kvm ought to be kept? >>> >>> >> >> I meant here: target-i386 (with kvm support) and target-i386-kvm. > > ta

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target. The main >>> difference between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the >>> -kvm target does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure. This >>> mea

Re: [kvm-devel] exception 12

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Hasenack
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:16:00 Andreas Hasenack wrote: > kernel 2.6.20 vanilla > kvm 14 kernel modules and userspace + "qemu kvm target" patch > everything built with gcc 4 > > Is this supposed to work? The vdisk.img was created with qemu-img following > the howto (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvm

[kvm-devel] exception 12

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Hasenack
kernel 2.6.20 vanilla kvm 14 kernel modules and userspace + "qemu kvm target" patch everything built with gcc 4 Is this supposed to work? The vdisk.img was created with qemu-img following the howto (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO). I don't have the iso for a boot image, so inserted an ubu

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target. The main difference >> between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target >> does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure. This means that it >> will build with gcc-4

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target. The main difference >> between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target >> does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure. This means that it >> will build with

Re: [kvm-devel] paravirtualization & cr3-cache feature

2007-02-20 Thread Dor Laor
>> >Why so many vm switches? First up, a typical I/O system maxes at >> >about 1Gb/s, right? That would be a gigabit NIC, or striped RAID, or >> >something like that. This suggests an average of only about 300 >> >bytes/transfer, to get >150k individual transfers per second? I >> >thought block

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] QEMU KVM target

2007-02-20 Thread Dylan Taft
Sweet deal. I just applied the patch to v14, and compiled with gcc 4.1.1. Thanks a lot! - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opini

Re: [kvm-devel] paravirtualization structure

2007-02-20 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > "This utilizes the cr3 filter capability of the hardware - if this works out > then no VM exit happens" > > NO VM-exits happen. h... maybe I need to go over the intel manuals more > thoroughly, however any hints will be most welcomed. Hi, I think you're confused a bit ;) the cr3 filt