Re: [kvm-devel] Using VMChannel to communicate with the host.

2007-09-11 Thread Cameron Macdonell
r email that not much can be done with the hypercall interface in terms of host-VM or VM-to-VM communication, correct? If reading and writing don't work, how can one exchange info between VMs? I'll look forward to the virtIO implementation. Thanks, Cam -

Re: [kvm-devel] Using VMChannel to communicate with the host.

2007-09-17 Thread Cameron Macdonell
ers/hypercall.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/kvm/kvm-userspace/drivers] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic' make: *** [all] Error 2 Thanks, Cam

[kvm-devel] What happens on an INT80 instruction

2007-09-30 Thread Cameron Macdonell
Hi, I'm trying to understand guest virtualization at the lower levels. I have a somewhat basic question: How does KVM virtualize an int80 instruction from a guest? A pointer to an answer is just as good as an answer itself. Thanks, Cam

[kvm-devel] How-to use paravirt layer for network and block devices

2008-01-29 Thread Cameron Macdonell
Hi, What are the command-line options necessary to get the guest devices to use the paravirt layer? Thanks, Cam --- A. Cameron Macdonell Ph.D. Student Department of Computing Science University of Alberta [EMAIL PROTECTED