Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM simplified virtio balloon driver

2008-01-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> >>> It would be very useful too to write vb->num_pages into the config space >>> whenever it was updated. This way, the host can easily keep track of >>> where the guest is at in terms of ballooning. >>> >>> >> OTOH it's currently pretty obvious (an

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM simplified virtio balloon driver

2008-01-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: > After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio > balloon can be made even simpler. Here's my attempt. > > Since the balloon requires Guest cooperation anyway, there seems > little reason to force it to tell the Host when it wants to reuse a > page. It can

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] add acpi powerbutton support

2008-01-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> I think we need to go back to active low pci irqs, and to have >> no-ioapic working we need to insert an inverter between the pci irq >> links and the pic. I base this on the following: >> >> - piix doesn't contain an ioapic, so the actual lines must be active low >> - th

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1874203 ] qemu-kvm gives just black screen

2008-01-18 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1874203, was opened at 2008-01-18 00:14 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1874203&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 1 of 2] Define and use CONFIG_KVM_HAS_PIO so that we don't need pio_data in kvm_arch_vcpu

2008-01-18 Thread Hollis Blanchard
# HG changeset patch # User Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Date 1200434310 21600 # Node ID 7fa5947a2da8c0c7424ebdcfaebcae624d6cf015 # Parent ee0c227fe3f6632f4b1b5fde3f7e05c8ea0a4378 Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [kvm-devel] 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 (KVM build issues)

2008-01-18 Thread Balbir Singh
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-17 02:35:14]: > - kvm probably doesn't work properly because I couldn't be bothered fixing > the conflicts between git-kvm and the driver tree > Hi, Andrew, The following changes got KVM up and running for me This patch fixes the kvm build on 2.6

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 0 of 6] Enhance PowerPC unit tests

2008-01-18 Thread Hollis Blanchard
These patches create libcflat for PowerPC and allow testcases to communicate with kvmctl via MMIO. They culminate in a C testcase that returns an error code through kvmctl to the shell. The x86 Makefiles looked hairy enough that I didn't want to mess with them, but it should be fairly easy to conv

Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Amit Shah
On Friday 18 January 2008 14:44:42 Soren Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:38:03PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards > compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to > help debug this issue? > >>

Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Soren Hansen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:38:03PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to help debug this issue? >> It's a bit odd. I was certain that I had had it running with the

Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Amit Shah
On Friday 18 January 2008 13:34:20 Soren Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:43:51AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: > > > I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards > > > compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to > > > help debug this issue? > > It's

Re: [kvm-devel] GFXboot, Ubuntu and kvm git

2008-01-18 Thread Soren Hansen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:43:51AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: > > I was under the impression that the kernel API should be backwards > > compatible, so I consider this a bug. Is there anything I can do to > > help debug this issue? It's a bit odd. I was certain that I had had it running with the modul