Re: [kvm-devel] [ofa-general] Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)

2008-02-25 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:11:32PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > You are missing one point here. The MPI specifications that have > > been out there for decades do not require the process use a library > > for allocating the buffer. I realize that is a horrible shortcoming, > > but that is the wo

Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)

2008-02-25 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thursday 21 February 2008 21:58, Robin Holt wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:20:02PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > So why can't you export a device from your xpmem driver, which > > > > can be mmap()ed to give out "anonymous" memory pages to be used > > > > for these communication buffers

Re: [kvm-devel] still seeing network freezes with rtl8139 nic

2008-02-25 Thread david ahern
Almost 7 hours and the uniprocessor case is still chugging along. david Avi Kivity wrote: > david ahern wrote: >> david ahern wrote: >> >>> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> - the in-kernel ioapic is buggy and needs the extra kicking the optimization prevents. Can be checked by re-adding

Re: [kvm-devel] The SMP RHEL 5.1 PAE guest can't boot up issue

2008-02-25 Thread Dong, Eddie
>> I don't know if the patch was still needed now, since it was posted >> long ago(I don't know which issue it solved). I'd like to post a >> revert patch if necessary. >> > > I believe the patch is still necessary, since we still need to > guarantee that a vcpu's tsc is monotonous. I think the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] QEMU support for virtio balloon driver

2008-02-25 Thread Dor Laor
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:47 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > This patch adds support to QEMU for Rusty's recently introduce virtio balloon > driver. The user-facing portions of this are the introduction of a "balloon" > and "info balloon" command in the monitor. > The patch looks good. Might be

Re: [kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1900829 ] KVM crashes with AMD NPT

2008-02-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:40:09AM -0800, SourceForge.net wrote: > Bugs item #1900829, was opened at 2008-02-24 14:40 > 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=1900829

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] build #365 issue for v2.6.25-rc2-342-g5d9c4a7 in ./arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko

2008-02-25 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:20:08 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:07:03 +0200 Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > Looks like KVM conflicts with CONFIG_VOYAGER... > > > > > > > Attached patch should fix. > > > > Subject: x86: disable KVM on Voyager > > > > Most classic Pentiums don't have h

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm: qemu: don't die if switching to fullscreen mode fails

2008-02-25 Thread Andreas Winkelbauer
hi, the attached patch fixes some glitches when switching to fullscreen mode using ctrl+alt+f or when booting using -full-screen. up to now the VM simply dies if one of the following situations occur: * user switches from windowed to fullscreen mode using a resolution which is too high (mea

[kvm-devel] Windows XP activation regression in KVM-60

2008-02-25 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, Original bug was submitted at http://bugs.debian.org/467043. The summary is that installs of Windows XP from pre-kvm-60 (pre-59?), then upgrading to kvm-60 or 61 causes Windows to trigger activation due to "computer changed too much". Downgrading to kvm-58 or previous resolves the issue. Have

Re: [kvm-devel] howto set up a virtual firewall?

2008-02-25 Thread Kurt Neufeld
Kurt Neufeld burgundywall.com> writes: > > It turns out I did have everything correctly configured but it still > doesn't work. The problem is that I cannot get a DHCP address on my vm. Almost correctly. > Some general questions, should br0 be up or down? What should my vm MAC > be? The same

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Alexander Graf wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Alexander Graf wrote: >>> >>> The ebx store was done because of PIC code, which does not allow ebx >>> to get clobbered. If we are not in PIC code, =r contains ebx as GPR >>> though, so the assumption that ebx needs to

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-60: kexec in guest crashes the host

2008-02-25 Thread Dan Aloni
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:48:39PM +0200, Dan Aloni wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:09:44AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Dan Aloni wrote: > > > It happens at 100% of the times I invoke kexec. > > > > > > > > > > Can you provide a commandline which triggers this? I'm completely > > ignorant

[kvm-devel] voyager/KVM build problem

2008-02-25 Thread Randy Dunlap
I could have sworn that we had patches that made KVM depend on !VOYAGER and !VISWS, but with 2.6.25-rc3 and linux-next, it's possible to select VOYAGER machine type (x86_32) and then enable KVM and watch the build fail. ERROR: "smp_ops" [arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Err

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Graf
On Feb 25, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> The ebx store was done because of PIC code, which does not allow >> ebx to get clobbered. If we are not in PIC code, =r contains ebx as >> GPR though, so the assumption that ebx needs to be restored was >> wrong th

Re: [kvm-devel] The SMP RHEL 5.1 PAE guest can't boot up issue

2008-02-25 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> will be a new release in the near future? since many of us waiting for this bug to be fixed on quad and other multi core cpus. >>> Certainly. Can you try out the attac

Re: [kvm-devel] The SMP RHEL 5.1 PAE guest can't boot up issue

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Farkas Levente wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Farkas Levente wrote: >> >>> will be a new release in the near future? since many of us waiting for >>> this bug to be fixed on quad and other multi core cpus. >>> >>> >>> >> Certainly. Can you try out the attached patch? >> > >

Re: [kvm-devel] The SMP RHEL 5.1 PAE guest can't boot up issue

2008-02-25 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> will be a new release in the near future? since many of us waiting for >> this bug to be fixed on quad and other multi core cpus. >> >> > > Certainly. Can you try out the attached patch? thanks. it works!:-))) we've been waiting for this in the las

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Alexander Graf wrote: > > The ebx store was done because of PIC code, which does not allow ebx > to get clobbered. If we are not in PIC code, =r contains ebx as GPR > though, so the assumption that ebx needs to be restored was wrong > then. This new version only enables the store/restore code if

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: release bad page on MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Subject says it all. > Applied, thanks. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Stu

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ia64-devel] [PATCH] Using kzalloc to avoid allocatingkvm_regs from kernel stack

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > Updated one. Sorry for inconvenience. > Applied, thanks. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microso

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix CPUID handling

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Graf
So this is a new version of the same patch. It should be rather safe now, as most cases are handled by gcc. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/qemu/qemu-kvm-x86.c b/qemu/qemu-kvm-x86.c index 37354fb..3062d1b 100644 --- a/qemu/qemu-kvm-x86.c +++ b/qemu/qemu-kvm-x86.c @@

Re: [kvm-devel] still seeing network freezes with rtl8139 nic

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
david ahern wrote: > david ahern wrote: > >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> - the in-kernel ioapic is buggy and needs the extra kicking the >>> optimization prevents. Can be checked by re-adding the optimization to >>> kvm_ioapic_set_irq() (keeping it removed in qemu). If it works, the >>> prob

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack

2008-02-25 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 17:34 +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > From: Xiantao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:11:43 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] kvm: Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from > kernel stack. > > Since the size of struct kvm_regs maybe too big to allocate from ke

Re: [kvm-devel] still seeing network freezes with rtl8139 nic

2008-02-25 Thread david ahern
david ahern wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> - the in-kernel ioapic is buggy and needs the extra kicking the >> optimization prevents. Can be checked by re-adding the optimization to >> kvm_ioapic_set_irq() (keeping it removed in qemu). If it works, the >> problem is in userspace. If it fails, the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack

2008-02-25 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:38 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 17:34 +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > > From: Xiantao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:11:43 +0800 > > Subject: [PATCH] kvm: Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from > > kernel stack. > >

Re: [kvm-devel] still seeing network freezes with rtl8139 nic

2008-02-25 Thread david ahern
Avi Kivity wrote: > david ahern wrote: >> I've run a lot more tests: >> >> >> - if I remove the "if (!change) return" optimization from pci_set_irq the >> rtl8139 nic worked fine for 16+ hours. I'm not recommending this as a >> fix, just >> confirming that the problem goes away. >> >> > > Inter

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/15] mark processors as presents

2008-02-25 Thread Glauber Costa
Avi Kivity wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: >>> >>> There is now code in rombios32.c to do this. It needs to be >>> removed. See acpi_build_processor_ssdt(). >> >> Building the table by hand is trivial in the case where the processors >> are just _listed_, and can be easily justified. This first p

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/15] mark processors as presents

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Glauber Costa wrote: >> >> There is now code in rombios32.c to do this. It needs to be >> removed. See acpi_build_processor_ssdt(). > > Building the table by hand is trivial in the case where the processors > are just _listed_, and can be easily justified. This first patch just > add the _STA

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/15] mark processors as presents

2008-02-25 Thread Glauber Costa
Avi Kivity wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: >> mark processors as present through the _STA method >> >> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> --- >> bios/acpi-dsdt.dsl | 19 +++ >> 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/bios/acpi-dsdt.dsl

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: release bad page on MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME

2008-02-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Subject says it all. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index e1aa6c9..ff7ef12 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -595,8 +595,10 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Graf
On Feb 25, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: Yang, Sheng wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008 16:41:25 Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: Hi, all, This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git 81e4400b4df4e597a81c19c1161aa03c73613

Re: [kvm-devel] gfxboot disable

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander R
you may try disable gfxboot by quickly pressing Shift key when you start your guest OS. (very quickly) On 2/23/08, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I looked for a gz o bz archive. Is there a tarball with gfxboot > > disable program (URL)? > > > I'm not

Re: [kvm-devel] [kvm-ia64-devel] [PATCH] Using kzalloc to avoid allocatingkvm_regs from kernel stack

2008-02-25 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Updated one. Sorry for inconvenience. Xiantao 0001-kvm-Using-kzalloc-to-avoid-allocating-kvm_regs-from.patch Description: 0001-kvm-Using-kzalloc-to-avoid-allocating-kvm_regs-from.patch - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Mic

Re: [kvm-devel] Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Colin Paul Adams wrote: >> "Avi" == Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Avi> Colin Paul Adams wrote: > >> This isn't mentioned on the guest status page. > >> > >> I went ahead and tried it anyway (32-bit). It works fine if I > >> don't specify -sm

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Alexander Graf wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Yang, Sheng wrote: >>> On Monday 25 February 2008 16:41:25 Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: >>> Hi, all, This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git 81e4400b4df4e597a81c19c1161aa03c73613710 and kvm-userspace.

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Graf
On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: Yang, Sheng wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008 16:41:25 Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: Hi, all, This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git 81e4400b4df4e597a81c19c1161aa03c73613710 and kvm-userspace.git 08385e49dcff3585f597870af67301d7659a1ecb. One

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack

2008-02-25 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Please use the new one. Add the check for failed allocation. From: Xiantao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:25:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack. Since the size of kvm_regs maybe too big to allocate from kernel stack, h

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack

2008-02-25 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
From: Xiantao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:11:43 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: Using kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack. Since the size of struct kvm_regs maybe too big to allocate from kernel stack, here use kzalloc to allocate it. Signed-off-by: Xiantao Z

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Yang, Sheng wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2008 16:41:25 Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: > >> Hi, all, >> >> This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git >> 81e4400b4df4e597a81c19c1161aa03c73613710 and kvm-userspace.git >> 08385e49dcff3585f597870af67301d7659a1ecb. >> >> One new issue has been found in t

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Yang, Sheng
On Monday 25 February 2008 16:41:25 Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: > Hi, all, > > This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git > 81e4400b4df4e597a81c19c1161aa03c73613710 and kvm-userspace.git > 08385e49dcff3585f597870af67301d7659a1ecb. > > One new issue has been found in today's testing: > 1. fc5/fc6/rhel

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix screen corruption bug in vga_draw_graphic()

2008-02-25 Thread Arne Brutschy
Hey, this patch works like a charm! No pointer trails, no bars through dialogs... Perfect quality. Thanks alot Andreas! Arne On Fr, 2008-02-22 at 21:36 +0100, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > hi, > > the attached patch fixes the screen corruption issues which were > reported by others, see: > > h

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Jerone Young wrote: > The top level directory of kvm-userspace is starting to get a little > crowded as we start to bring in more external dependencies. Perhaps we > can create a folder "tools" and move directories: > bios > extboot > vgabios > > The reason I mention this is soon I will be sending

Re: [kvm-devel] still seeing network freezes with rtl8139 nic

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
david ahern wrote: > I've run a lot more tests: > > > - if I remove the "if (!change) return" optimization from pci_set_irq the > rtl8139 nic worked fine for 16+ hours. I'm not recommending this as a fix, > just > confirming that the problem goes away. > > Interesting. What can cause this to

[kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 81e4400.., userspace 08385e4.. , One new issue

2008-02-25 Thread Zhao, Yunfeng
Hi, all, This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git 81e4400b4df4e597a81c19c1161aa03c73613710 and kvm-userspace.git 08385e49dcff3585f597870af67301d7659a1ecb. One new issue has been found in today's testing: 1. fc5/fc6/rhel5u1 no-acpi up guests can't boot on pae host https://sourceforge.net/

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1901208 ] fc5/fc6/rhel5u1 no-acpi up guests can't boot on ia32pae pl

2008-02-25 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1901208, was opened at 2008-02-25 16:31 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=1901208&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy