Will KVM be participating in Google's Summer of Code?
I am reasonably familiar with KVM's sourcecode and would love to help
out during the summer.
Thanks,
Benjamin Prosnitz
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Neo Jia wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am quite interested in KVM project and have read through several
> papers from VMware site related to the virtualization (also including
> some papers from their reference list). I would like to try some small
> bugs/enhancement first.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
There are
Leonard Norrgard wrote:
> The previous patch introduces an IPI on every vcpu migration on SMP
> machines to find out the TSC value on the previous cpu. We might be
> able to avoid this IPI on systems that have a synchronized TSC by
> checking for it in svm/vmx_vcpu_load:
>
> + /* If t
Thanks for picking this up! Some comments below.
Leonard Norrgard wrote:
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/svm.c
> ===
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/svm.c 2007-03-02 17:29:57.0 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/svm.c 2
Emil Tantilov wrote:
> Finally I got some time and played with this some
> more. The unresolved symbols are caused by the fact
> that the kvm module fails to load:
>
> FATAL: Error inserting kvm
> (/lib/modules/2.6.20/extra/kvm.ko): Device or resource
> busy
>
> I narrowed it down the following:
>
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Can you try turning the '#undef AUDIT' to '#define AUDIT' in mmu.c?
>> Also, change 'int dbg = 1' to 'int dbg = 0' in the same file. Note kvm
>> will be very slower after this. dmesg will show any issues (issue a
>> 'echo 9 > /proc/sysrq-trigger' to make sure all mess
