Re: [kvm-devel] [ToDo] Real Mode Support

2008-02-06 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
I am still holding to few patches for big real mode. After rebase I will push those patches. Thanks & Regards, Nitin Linux Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation The Mind is like a parachute; it works much bett

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

2007-11-28 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
>Kamble, Nitin A wrote: >> 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 >> qem

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

[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 memor

Re: [kvm-devel] [Patch] (big) real mode emulation - eflags bits manipulating instruction

2007-10-17 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
> Applied, thanks. We'll have to manage the interrupt window during > emulation like we do while running native, so there's more work > here. I totally agree. So far I don't see any issue ignoring that aspect, so I think no point in holding emulation patch at my end. More can be added to the same

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Correct management of REP prefix

2007-10-03 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
27;s open. -Original Message- From: Laurent Vivier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:24 AM To: Kamble, Nitin A Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PATCH] Correct management of REP prefix Kamble, Nitin A wrote: > Hi Laurent, > This p

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Correct management of REP prefix

2007-10-02 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:01 AM To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Kamble, Nitin A; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Laurent Vivier Subject: [PATCH] Correct management of REP prefix This patch corrects some errors appearing when we have an emulation failure on an operati

[kvm-devel] use of saved_eip

2007-09-26 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Vivier, Avi, In order to debug faulures in my tree, I was looking at the saved_eip changes coming from your commit. I did not understand the use of saved_eip properly. like why is it used in the emulation of the pop instruction. Can you please help me understand it's usage? commit 5d9b3

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] (big) real mode emulation - jump conditional relative

2007-09-13 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
3, 2007 1:48 PM To: Kamble, Nitin A Cc: Avi Kivity; kvm-devel; Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] (big) real mode emulation - jump conditional relative Nitin A Kamble wrote: > Hi Avi, > Attached is the patch to implement instruction: > jump conditional relative

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] (big) real mode emulation - push imm8

2007-09-12 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
like a parachute; it works much better when it's open. -Original Message- From: Avi Kivity [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:28 AM To: Laurent Vivier Cc: Kamble, Nitin A; kvm-devel Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] (big) real mode emulation - push imm8

Re: [kvm-devel] [Patch] (big) real mode emulation - emulator_write_std

2007-08-13 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
The Mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open. -Original Message- From: Avi Kivity [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 1:46 AM To: Kamble, Nitin A Cc: kvm-devel; Nakajima, Jun; Yu, Wilfred Subject: Re: [Patch] (big) real mode emulation - emul

Re: [kvm-devel] [Patch] Implement emulation of instruction "ret"

2007-06-18 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
The patch attached to this email. > Hi Avi, > > Attached is a patch implementing the instruction "ret" opcode 0xc3. > > Please Comment/Apply. Thanks & Regards, Nitin Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation. - T

[kvm-devel] [Patch] Implement emulation of instruction "ret"

2007-06-18 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, Attached is a patch implementing the instruction "ret" opcode 0xc3. Please Comment/Apply. Thanks & Regards, Nitin Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation. - The mind is like a parachute; it works much bet

[kvm-devel] [Patch] Implement emulation of "pop reg" instruction

2007-06-18 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, Patch implementing the "pop reg", opcodes 0x58-0x5f attached. It has passed the checkpatch.pl test. And you should not see any CRLF characters in the attachment. Please Comment/Apply. Thanks & Regards, Nitin Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation.

[kvm-devel] [patch] emit more information on the emulation failure

2007-06-18 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, Attached is a small patch to emit little bit more information when emulcation reaches cannot_emulate:. The patch looks fine to the scripts/checkpatch.pl. It show not look to you in the DOS format, unless something in between us is changing the format of the attachment. Please comment/ap

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] implement pop reg in x86_emulate

2007-06-08 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
ntel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA -Original Message- From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:50 AM To: Kamble, Nitin A Cc: kvm-devel Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] implement pop reg in x86_emulate Kamble, Nitin A wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 a

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] implement pop reg in x86_emulate

2007-06-08 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 20:52 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Kamble, Nitin A wrote: > > Hi Avi, > >I am in the middle of implementing the big real support in the > KVM > > now. I am trying to boot SuseLinux 10.1 on KVM, which uses extensive > big > > real mode

[kvm-devel] [patch] Implement "ret" instruction in x86_emulate

2007-06-07 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, Please find a patch implementing the "ret" instruction in the x86_emulation. Thanks & Regards, Nitin Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation. - The mind is like a parachute; it works much better wh

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] implement pop reg in x86_emulate

2007-06-07 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, I am in the middle of implementing the big real support in the KVM now. I am trying to boot SuseLinux 10.1 on KVM, which uses extensive big real mode code in the boot loader. If you have any other targeted guests using big real mode do let me know. I have been working on my own priva

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] add the last vmexit cs & eip in the debugfs data

2007-05-25 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, Attached is a small patch to let user land know where the guest was at last vmexit. I am using this to debug the big real mode guests. I think this will be useful to more people. Author: Nitin A Kamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks & Regards, Nitin Open Source Technology Center, Intel Co

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Handle #SS(0), caused by address size override in vm86 mode

2007-05-16 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Avi, I was playing with KVM while booting SuSE Linux 10.1 on it. And I found it was bailing out with #SS fault. I root caused it to the address size override opcode (0x67) from a mov instruction from the boot loader. The attached patch handles the #SS(0) fault with emulation, letting guest ca

[kvm-devel] SuSE Linux 10.1 & 10.2 on KVM

2007-01-23 Thread Kamble, Nitin A
Hi Guys, I was wondering if SuSE Linux 10.1 and 10.2 can boot on top of KVM? Xen is getting into real mode emulation issues with these distributions for Fully virtualized Guests. Thanks & Regards, Nitin Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation.