Re: [kvm-devel] New VT-D spec available

2007-05-22 Thread Avi Kivity
Nakajima, Jun wrote: I agree that it's straightforward to handle those page tables. The question is interrupt remapping, i.e. how to inject particular external interupts to the vm that is reposible for the interrupts without impacting the kernel code. We are considering the irq chip

[kvm-devel] PIT weirdness

2007-05-22 Thread Gregory Haskins
Hi all, I found some strangeness with the PIT emulation while working on this APIC code that I can't quite explain. So I thought I would ping the list to see if anyone knowledgable can tell me what is happening. I am seeing two interrupts coming from the PIT for every SIGALARM. The

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

2007-05-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:49:51AM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: In the general case, you can't pass a command line argument to Linux either. kvm doesn't boot Linux; it boots the bios, which boots the boot sector, which boots grub, which boots Linux. Relying on the user to edit the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

2007-05-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: On 5/22/07, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: In a PV environment why not just pass an initial cookie/hash/whatever as a command-line argument/register/memory-space to the underlying kernel? You can't pass a command line argument

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC]kvm: swapout guest page

2007-05-22 Thread Carsten Otte
Avi Kivity wrote: Ooh, I want one too. You can get one here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/lcds/ This might get useful the day we merge our stuff into kvm. so long, Carsten - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On 5/22/07, Anthony Liguori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: On 5/22/07, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't think we were talking about the general case, I thought we were discussing the PV case. In case of KVM no one is speaking of pure PV.

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

2007-05-22 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On 5/22/07, Anthony Liguori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: On 5/22/07, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case of KVM no one is speaking of pure PV. Why not? It seems worthwhile to come up with something that can cover the whole spectrum instead

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On 5/22/07, Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not opposed to supporting emulation environments, just don't make a large pile of crap the default like Xen -- and having to integrate PCI probing code in my guest domains is a large pile of crap. Exactly. I'm about to start a

Re: [kvm-devel] New VT-D spec available

2007-05-22 Thread Nakajima, Jun
Avi Kivity wrote: Nakajima, Jun wrote: I agree that it's straightforward to handle those page tables. The question is interrupt remapping, i.e. how to inject particular external interupts to the vm that is reposible for the interrupts without impacting the kernel code. We are considering

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 7/9] Virtual network guest device driver

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On 5/22/07, Dor Laor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't quit so soon on us. OK. I'll go look at Ingo's stuff. Thanks again ron - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2

Re: [kvm-devel] qemu/kvm seems to take ALSA all for itself?

2007-05-22 Thread David Abrahams
on Mon May 21 2007, Avi Kivity avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w-AT-public.gmane.org wrote: David Abrahams wrote: When I have windows XP running under kvm, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/gaim/receive.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-22 and Vista support

2007-05-22 Thread Nakajima, Jun
Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote: On 5/8/07, Nakajima, Jun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote: I have also tried using Windows Vista with kvm. Until now, I had (of course) the same ACPI problem as everybody. I had decided to compile the new BIOS by

[kvm-devel] kvm slides at NLUUG?

2007-05-22 Thread Jun Koi
Hi Avi, Could you make your slides/paper at NLUGG available? (http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/) Many thanks, Jun - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and