Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-07-21 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 21:21, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 14:25, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > > > Checking once more, it would appear I haven't tried qemu-nvmm on the > > kernel from 12-th of July; the last successful execution was on the > > 11th with a kernel and system from t

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-07-16 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 14:25, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > Checking once more, it would appear I haven't tried qemu-nvmm on the > kernel from 12-th of July; the last successful execution was on the > 11th with a kernel and system from the 9th of July, so the window is a > bit wider than initially exp

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-07-15 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Checking once more, it would appear I haven't tried qemu-nvmm on the kernel from 12-th of July; the last successful execution was on the 11th with a kernel and system from the 9th of July, so the window is a bit wider than initially expected. On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 14:20, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: >

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-07-15 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 11:08, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > Hi, > > I decided to reuse this thread; nvmm again ceased to work from yesterday. > > On > > # uname -a > NetBSD ymir 9.99.69 NetBSD 9.99.69 (GENERIC) #15: Tue Jul 14 11:07:52 > BST 2020 sysbuild@ymir:/home/sysbuild/amd64/obj/home/sysbuild/s

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-07-15 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Hi, I decided to reuse this thread; nvmm again ceased to work from yesterday. On # uname -a NetBSD ymir 9.99.69 NetBSD 9.99.69 (GENERIC) #15: Tue Jul 14 11:07:52 BST 2020 sysbuild@ymir:/home/sysbuild/amd64/obj/home/sysbuild/src/sys /arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 I can 'modload nvmm', but wh

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-05-20 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 09/05/2020 à 10:54, Maxime Villard a écrit : Le 01/05/2020 à 19:13, Chavdar Ivanov a écrit : On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 13:59, Rhialto wrote: On Sun 26 Apr 2020 at 21:39:12 +0200, Maxime Villard wrote: Maybe I should add a note in the man page to say that you cannot expect a CPU from before ~2

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-05-09 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 01/05/2020 à 19:13, Chavdar Ivanov a écrit : On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 13:59, Rhialto wrote: On Sun 26 Apr 2020 at 21:39:12 +0200, Maxime Villard wrote: Maybe I should add a note in the man page to say that you cannot expect a CPU from before ~2010 to have virtualization support. Or even bet

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-05-01 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 19:11, Rhialto wrote: > > On Fri 01 May 2020 at 18:13:01 +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > So far, with several attempts, it works with no problem whatsoever, > > directly booting the newest image on the site pointed above. > > There might well be an improvement between 9.0 an

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-05-01 Thread Rhialto
On Fri 01 May 2020 at 18:13:01 +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > So far, with several attempts, it works with no problem whatsoever, > directly booting the newest image on the site pointed above. There might well be an improvement between 9.0 and -current, of course. It's good to hear that it works f

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-05-01 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 13:59, Rhialto wrote: > > On Sun 26 Apr 2020 at 21:39:12 +0200, Maxime Villard wrote: > > Maybe I should add a note in the man page to say that you cannot expect a > > CPU > > from before ~2010 to have virtualization support. > > Or even better, what one should look for in t

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-05-01 Thread Rhialto
On Sun 26 Apr 2020 at 21:39:12 +0200, Maxime Villard wrote: > Maybe I should add a note in the man page to say that you cannot expect a CPU > from before ~2010 to have virtualization support. Or even better, what one should look for in the output of, for example, "cpuctl identify 0". Since I didn'

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-04-26 Thread Maxime Villard
Hi, I'm not subscribed to this list but someone forwarded me your email: > I'm curious about the situation on the NVMM front. On its page it says > that it works both with Intel and AMD cpu's > (https://m00nbsd.net/4e0798b7f2620c965d0dd9d6a7a2f296.html), but I've > read elsewhere > (https://blog.

Re: NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-04-26 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On my HP Elite laptop with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, id 0x306a9, it works as good as it can get, I use it constantly. /dev/nvmm is c 345 0, 640, owner root, group nvmm. The user is also a member of the nvmm group. I run it on -current, 9.99.59 at the moment. The latest versions

NVMM not working, NetBSD 9x amd64

2020-04-26 Thread Andrei M.
Hello, I'm curious about the situation on the NVMM front. On its page it says that it works both with Intel and AMD cpu's (https://m00nbsd.net/4e0798b7f2620c965d0dd9d6a7a2f296.html), but I've read elsewhere (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_hardware_assisted_virtualization_challenge) that it