Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-11-04 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 31/10/13 15:30, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:39:03AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I know it's been a long time since this thread. But qemu 1.7 is >> releasing, do you have any consensus on this? >> >> Thanks. > > > I think the biggest issue is the new PANICKE

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-10-29 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Note: CC list restricted to @redhat.com. On 10/29/13 17:01, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Ping! > > Hu Tao writes: > >> Hi All, >> >> I know it's been a long time since this thread. But qemu 1.7 is >> releasing, do you have any consensus on this? IIRC Anthony wanted a brand new virtio device and

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-10-29 Thread Markus Armbruster
Ping! Hu Tao writes: > Hi All, > > I know it's been a long time since this thread. But qemu 1.7 is > releasing, do you have any consensus on this? > > Thanks. -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-27 Thread Ronen Hod
On 08/27/2013 11:06 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 03:09:06PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: Paolo Bonzini writes: Also, a virtio watchdog device makes little sense, IMHO. PV makes sense if emulation has insufficient performance, excessive CPU usage, or excessive complex

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:26:53AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > That's why I think having a virtio-ilo makes sense. This is not a > solved problem today. What's the scope of virtio-ilo? If it's anything like a real ILO it's going to do a lot of not-very-related things, such as: - pvpanic-ty

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:08:12PM +0300, Ronen Hod wrote: >> So the right solution is to send a heart-beat to a management >> application (using qemu-ga or whatever), and let it decide how to >> handle it. This is host-centric solution

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:13:34PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Il 22/08/2013 19:53, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto: > > >> > We should just introduce a simple watchdog device based on virtio and > > >> > call it a day. Then it's cr

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:08:12PM +0300, Ronen Hod wrote: > So the right solution is to send a heart-beat to a management > application (using qemu-ga or whatever), and let it decide how to > handle it. Agreed. The qemu watchdog lets you do this already. You can (using the qemu monitor, or libv

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:25:32PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I believe that the watchdogs we emulate today are not supported by a > majority of guests. BTW this is not true. The two watchdog devices are supported by all Linux guests. Windows guests do not support them, but Windows lacks[1]

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 03:09:06PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Paolo Bonzini writes: > > Also, a virtio watchdog device makes little sense, IMHO. PV makes sense > > if emulation has insufficient performance, excessive CPU usage, or > > excessive complexity. We already have both an ISA and a

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-22 Thread Peter Maydell
On 22 August 2013 21:09, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Paolo Bonzini writes: >> Not just that. Panic notifiers are called in a substantially unknown >> environment, with locks taken or interrupts already set up. > > If you make the panic notify a config space write, then on virtio-pci, > it's an outb

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?

2013-08-22 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 22/08/13 20:33, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Laszlo Ersek writes: > >> On 08/22/13 18:10, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> The thread from yesterday has died off (perhaps also because of >>> my inappropriate answer to Michael, for which I apologize to him >>> and everyone). I took some time to discuss th