[kvm-devel] kvm-22 and Vista support

2007-05-06 Thread Jorge Lucángeli Obes
> The happy theme of today's kvm is the significant performance > improvements, brought to you by a growing team of developers. I've > clocked kbuild at within 25% of native. This release also introduces > support for 32-bit Windows Vista. > > Changes from kvm-21: > - Significant performance impr

[kvm-devel] Error on compile userspace code

2007-05-06 Thread Jun Koi
Hello, Now our userspace code is in git repo, and separated from kernel code? So I think the instruction from http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO is not relevant anymore if we are to compile/install userspace code (with qemu) from scratch? I compiled kvm kernel first (kvm22), then pull userspa

[kvm-devel] kshmem & ACE

2007-05-06 Thread Wink Saville
Hello, I've posted patches for two features, kernel shared memory and Atomic Code Execution, which I believe can be used to implement para-virtualized devices. Could someone recommend a device that might make a good proof of concept? I was thinking may be a block device. Any suggestions and addit

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] ACE documentation

2007-05-06 Thread Wink Saville
> > > > Trusted code should only be allowed access to the feature, at the moment > > it is enforced by requiring the applications to have root permissions to > > open the character device driver. > > This is a serious problem. There is a reason why we normally do things > with system calls. Unless

Re: [kvm-devel] System time issues - 64 bit guest

2007-05-06 Thread Steven Wilton
> -Original Message- > From: Dor Laor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 6 May 2007 3:03 PM > To: Steven Wilton; kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [kvm-devel] System time issues - 64 bit guest > > >I've got a problem where my guest VM's system clock is very > inaccura

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] ACE documentation

2007-05-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 06 May 2007, Wink Saville wrote: > > > > > Thus code > > > +executing within the ACE area can also be executed from user space or > > > +kernel space. This is accomplished by using spin locks when executing > > > +within the ACE area and changes to arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S such that > >

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] ACE documentation

2007-05-06 Thread Wink Saville
On 5/6/07, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 May 2007, Wink Saville wrote: > > +Atomic Code Execution (ACE) allows code to execute as if it was > > +surrounded by spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore without > > +requiring actual access to the processor flags register.

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1713790 ] Crashing booting HaikuOS

2007-05-06 Thread SourceForge.net
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Re: [kvm-devel] kvmfs

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Mark Ryden wrote: > Thanks, Avi. > > I thought that this kvmfs is somehow connected to > "a synthetic file system that can be used to control one or more KVM > virtual machines running on a computer." > > see: > http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2007/view_abstract.php?content_key=102 > > I assume there

Re: [kvm-devel] kvmfs

2007-05-06 Thread Mark Ryden
Thanks, Avi. I thought that this kvmfs is somehow connected to "a synthetic file system that can be used to control one or more KVM virtual machines running on a computer." see: http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2007/view_abstract.php?content_key=102 I assume there is no connection between your kvm

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/4] ACE documentation

2007-05-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 06 May 2007, Wink Saville wrote: > +Atomic Code Execution (ACE) allows code to execute as if it was > +surrounded by spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore without > +requiring actual access to the processor flags register. I guess you mean spin_{un,}lock_irq here, right? The save/

Re: [kvm-devel] kvmfs

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Mark Ryden wrote: > Hi, > Could anybody tell a few sentences anout kvmfs: what is it for ? > I did not find anything in the FAQ; googling for it did not give a valuable > It's a pseudo filesystem for generating inodes; it's just glue to get things working; it has no specific functionality. I'

[kvm-devel] kvmfs

2007-05-06 Thread Mark Ryden
Hi, Could anybody tell a few sentences anout kvmfs: what is it for ? I did not find anything in the FAQ; googling for it did not give a valuable info either. Mark - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Ex

[kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-22 release

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
The happy theme of today's kvm is the significant performance improvements, brought to you by a growing team of developers. I've clocked kbuild at within 25% of native. This release also introduces support for 32-bit Windows Vista. Changes from kvm-21: - Significant performance improvements (

[kvm-devel] [GIT PULL][RESEND] KVM updates for Linux 2.6.22

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Linus, Please pull from the repository and branch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git for-linus to receive the pending kvm updates for 2.6.22. The changes increase the range of guests we support, improve performance, fix various bugs, and improve the userspace interface

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't fault when guest tries to read IA32_EBL_CR_POWERON MSR

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Matthew Gregan wrote: > Hi, > > Attempting to boot the default 'bsd' kernel of OpenBSD 4.1 i386 in a guest > fails early in the kernel init inside p3_get_bus_clock while trying to read > the IA32_EBL_CR_POWERON MSR. KVM logs an 'unhandled MSR' message and the > guest kernel faults. > > This patch

Re: [kvm-devel] faster boot with -no-kvm?

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
David Abrahams wrote: >> >>> A subsequent reboot went much faster. Wow, the virtual machine really >>> blazes now! Wish I'd known about that earlier, thanks! >>> >>> >> Looks like something the wiki wants to know about too. >> > > It doesn't seem all that easy to find some thi

Re: [kvm-devel] faster boot with -no-kvm?

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
David Abrahams wrote: >> >>> A subsequent reboot went much faster. Wow, the virtual machine really >>> blazes now! Wish I'd known about that earlier, thanks! >>> >>> >> Looks like something the wiki wants to know about too. >> > > Seems like it's already there: > http://kvm.qu

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Kernel side patches for in-kernel APIC

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2007 at 2:57 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Nakajima, Jun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This sounds good, but when will this get incorporated in the tree? >> >> The reason I'm asking is that I've got X64 Vista up on KVM as

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Kernel side patches for in-kernel APIC

2007-05-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Gregory Haskins wrote: > The following is my kernel side patch series for adding in-kernel APIC logic. > By default, the code enters "level-0" mode and should be compatible with > existing userspace. I have a patch series for userspace which enables > "level-1" mode which I will forward after this

Re: [kvm-devel] System time issues - 64 bit guest

2007-05-06 Thread Dor Laor
>I've got a problem where my guest VM's system clock is very inaccurate. >The >host computer is running 4 guest VM's, 2 32-bit Linux (Debian Sarge), 1 >Windows XP and 1 64 bit Linux (Debian Etch). > >The problem I have is that the system clock on the 64 bit Deabin Etch VM is >always either running