Re: [kvm-devel] OpenSolaris 09/2007 (Sun Solaris Express)

2007-11-27 Thread magicboiz
Well done Carlo. The patch works perfectly with my OpenSolaris and kvm-53. Thx! El lun, 26-11-2007 a las 19:31 -0600, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon escribió: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:53:10PM +0200, magicboiz wrote: Sun Solaris Express(9/07), does not detect the hard disk..I attach an

Re: [kvm-devel] emulation failed but !mmio_needed? rip 10000 fc 0f 01 15

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Neo Jia wrote: Do we need to add a default in x86 emulator switch statement? Take a look at the code. That path is already covered. Avi, I just checkout the latest kvm.git. Please correct me if I am wrong. I don't see the explicit default in swtich (c-b) statement but I

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Fix compile error caused by no defined CONFIG_X86

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Sheng Yang wrote: From c050ed6225f314b86a0dabf11c7f677de097c39f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sheng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:41:06 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: Fix compile error caused by no defined CONFIG_X86 For linux/kvm.h was included by qemu, which didn't define

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm: qemu: Fix compile error in non-x86 arch

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Sheng Yang wrote: From 5a3ca0556bb3f8b9e18d392535312c370c2dd2f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sheng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:51:44 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: qemu: Fix compile error in non-x86 arch This patch disable PIC/IOAPIC live migration support for non-x86

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Remove build output file in user/test/x86/lib

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Neo Jia wrote: From 2d054cce30ae2e837b24144195b9785a20e08c4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neo Jia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:29:53 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Remove build output file in user/test/x86/lib. This patch will remove the generated files (.*.d, *.o) in directory

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: Another point is that virtio still has a lot of leading zeros in its mileage counter. We need to keep things flexible and learn from others as much as possible, especially when talking about the ABI. Yes, after thinking about it over holiday, I agree that we should at

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Carsten Otte wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: No, definitely not define a hypercall ABI. The feature bit should say this device understands a hypervisor-specific way of kicking. consult your hypervisor manual and cpuid bits for further details. should you not be satisfied with this method,

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Add ifdef in irqchip struct for x86 only structures

2007-11-27 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Perhaps we could just move the declaration of kvm_irqchip to an arch specific header instead of introducing #ifdef's? Does ia64 have a i8259a? Hi Anthony, IA64 doesn't need to keep i8259 for platform virtualization, but we still need ioapic, so I also don't think we can use

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/6] virtio block driver for QEMU (v2)

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2007 10:25:54 Anthony Liguori wrote: Dor Laor wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Dor Laor wrote: In general I think we need to add another feature or even version number ( I know you guys hate it). The reason is - Let's say

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

2007-11-27 Thread Carsten Otte
Avi Kivity wrote: Unfortunately, we have to care for platform differences, subarch differences (vmx/svm), hypervisor differences (with virtio), and guest differences (Linux/Windows/pvLinux, 32/64). Much care is needed when designing the ABI here. Yea, I agree. [actually thinking a bit,

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Carsten Otte wrote: [actually thinking a bit, this is specific to the virtio pci binding; s390 will never see any of it] You remember that we've lost the big debate around virtio in Tucson? I was in the embedded BOF. We intend to bind our virtio devices to PCI too, so that they look the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

2007-11-27 Thread Carsten Otte
Avi Kivity wrote: We intend to bind our virtio devices to PCI too, so that they look the same in Linux userland across architectures. Ouch. That was my initial opinion too, but HPA has come up with a lean and clean PCI binding for lguest. I think we should seriously consider using that

[kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-54 release

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Minor improvements all around. Changes from kvm-53: - fix fpu leak on AMD (Amit Shah) - (on kvm-53, lazy fpu was disabled, so this just improves performance) - prefetch instruction bytes when emulating - implement guest page fault bypass on nonpae - should speed up some 32-bit guests - add

Re: [kvm-devel] cross compiling kvm

2007-11-27 Thread Gerd Koenig
Hi Jerone, On Monday 26 November 2007, Jerone Young wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:57 +0100, Gerd Koenig wrote: hello, Which is the first version of kvm, which is considered to be able to cross compile? It would be one of the newer versions. I started to sending cross compile stuff

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Remove hypercall driver (v2)

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: I don't think there's any plans for this driver to every be used seriously as virtio seems like the agreed upon layer. So let's remove the code from the tree so I can use the drivers/ directory for something else. Applied, thanks. -- error compiling committee.c:

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] Provide a mechanism to build virtio drivers as modules (v2)

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: This provides a make sync within the drivers/ directory to allow virtio drivers to be built as third-party modules much as we do with the KVM driver. We will want to ship and build guest drivers as a separate package (that's not to say that this patch is wrong;

[kvm-devel] AltGR-Key in QEmu-VNC

2007-11-27 Thread Elmar Haneke
When using VNC Server build into qemu the AltGr-Key seems to be ignored. The alternative Ctrl-Alt seems to work but it is less comfortable to press three keys. Any idea how to fix it? Elmar - This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

2007-11-27 Thread Dor Laor
Carsten Otte wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: We intend to bind our virtio devices to PCI too, so that they look the same in Linux userland across architectures. Ouch. That was my initial opinion too, but HPA has come up with a lean and clean PCI binding for lguest. I think we should

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 51727a1.. , userspace 6a385c9..

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?funcÞtailatid‰3831aid36905group_id05 99 Internal testing here confirms, but this is not a recent regression. When was the last time Vista x64 installed reliably for you? (here, it works, but not 100% of the time). [Yunfeng]

[kvm-devel] [GIT PULL] KVM fixes for Linux 2.6.24-rc3

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Linus, Please pull the the kvm updates in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git for-linus fixing some x86 emulator and AMD FPU handling regressions. Amit Shah (2): KVM: x86 emulator: Use emulator_write_emulated and not emulator_write_std KVM: SVM: Fix FPU leak

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 51727a1.. , userspace 6a385c9..

2007-11-27 Thread Zhao, Yunfeng
One regression: 1. Cannot install 64bit vista guests. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?funcÞtailatid‰3831aid36905group_id05 99 Internal testing here confirms, but this is not a recent regression. When was the last time Vista x64 installed reliably for you? (here, it works, but not 100% of

Re: [kvm-devel] OpenSolaris 09/2007 (Sun Solaris Express)

2007-11-27 Thread Avi Kivity
magicboiz wrote: Well done Carlo. The patch works perfectly with my OpenSolaris and kvm-53. Good to know. Thx! El lun, 26-11-2007 a las 19:31 -0600, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon escribió: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:53:10PM +0200, magicboiz wrote: Sun Solaris Express(9/07),

Re: [kvm-devel] OpenSolaris 09/2007 (Sun Solaris Express)

2007-11-27 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:22:57PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: magicboiz wrote: Well done Carlo. The patch works perfectly with my OpenSolaris and kvm-53. Good to know. Also tested it with Nexenta alpha 7, and Indiana and had it added as part of my gentoo package for kvm-54 attached

[kvm-devel] Problem with vde/dnsmasq on CentOS 5.0

2007-11-27 Thread Cam Macdonell
Hi, Apologies for this not being a specific KVM issue. I cannot get vde/dnsmasq working with KVM on CentOS 5.0. It works fine on FC6 basically following the instructions here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM. However, when I move to CentOS 5, I constantly get the Sendto: bad file

[kvm-devel] real mode emulation and memory consumption

2007-11-27 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, I am noticing that with SL 10.1 The QEMU process memory consumption steadily increases, up the the guest memory size and then the guest dies with unhandled vmexit. If I change the guest memory size I can see the qemu process dies accordingly, after reaching the size of allotted guest

Re: [kvm-devel] real mode emulation and memory consumption

2007-11-27 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
-Original Message- From: Kamble, Nitin A Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:05 PM To: 'Avi Kivity' Cc: kvm-devel Subject: real mode emulation and memory consumption Hi Avi, I am noticing that with SL 10.1 The QEMU process memory consumption steadily increases, up the the guest memory

[kvm-devel] Should we move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt to arch?

2007-11-27 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Hi, Avi Since IA64's irqchip is always in kernel side, so we don't need kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt for irq delivery. Should we moved it to arch? Otherwise, we have to define two unnecessary fields(irq_summary and irq_pending) for vcpu structure for compile pass. Xiantao