Re: [Qemu-devel] vio-net driver

2012-06-14 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Brain, Thank you for information. With your confirmation, I think our engineer must have done something wrong during the software upgrade process. I will keep an eye on this when we re-do the test. -Original Message- From: Brian Jackson [mailto:i...@theiggy.com] Sent:

Re: [Qemu-devel] vio-net driver

2012-06-10 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Hi Brian, Do you have any finding for VirtIO Net driver problem? The latest Ubuntu release(v 12.04) still comes with Qemu 0.14.1. Did you find any debug report for VirtIO Net driver on qemu 0.14.1? If we need to upgrade qemu, is there any installation package available over the web? Last time,

[Qemu-devel] kernel panic with bridge

2012-06-05 Thread Charles . Tsai--
We hit a kernel panic when a VM was configured with bridge mode. After the IpTable was disabled using the following command lines, the kernel panic was gone. We would like to know if there is any fix in latest kernel for this issue? Note that we ran qemu 1.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 --

Re: [Qemu-devel] vio-net driver

2012-06-05 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Hi Brian, Here are the information from our system. We launched the VM using the following XML file. The kernel version is 3.0.0.12 The Qemu version is 1.0.0(we upgraded it. Default one is 0.14.1)

[Qemu-devel] vio-net driver

2012-06-04 Thread Charles . Tsai--
We recently ran an Ubuntu 11.10 VM which was installed with VirtIO NIC driver. The VirtIO net driver came from the Ubuntu's default package. The VM we installed was configured as a bridge mode. When we ran the Iperf test against the VM, the network interface of the VM was fairly unstable.

Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-04 Thread Charles . Tsai--
The kernel version is 3.0.0.12 The Qemu version is 1.0.0(we upgraded it) What version of kernel do we need to upgrade? -Original Message- From: mathslinux [mailto:riegama...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:03 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-04 Thread Charles . Tsai--
I am just curious about this issue. Is there any document mentioning the lowest version of the kernel to be supported by VirtIO? -Original Message- From: Dunrong Huang [mailto:riegama...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:17 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-04 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Yes, I saw that page too. But our current kernel version meets the kernel requirement. Why do we need to upgrade it? -Original Message- From: Dunrong Huang [mailto:riegama...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:26 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re:

[Qemu-devel] VirtIO Net driver for Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-03 Thread Charles . Tsai--
We recently ran an Ubuntu 11.10 VM which was installed with VirtIO NIC driver. The VirtIO net driver came from the Ubuntu's default package. The VM we installed was configured as a bridge mode. When we ran the Iperf test against the VM, the network interface of the VM was fairly unstable.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Tracing message for mu

2012-05-26 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, Hans replied me back and he suggested me to use strace. Hopefully, this issue can be resolved. Additionally, we encountered a tough issue right now. When we ran a 64-bit Windows 7 VM overnight, the kvm process was killed for some reasons. Here is the qemu version I copied from the

Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-25 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, I made two test cases here. 1) case one: A 32-bit Windows 7 VM with 8G virtual disk size. In this test, the virtual disk is almost full. Like what you said, the instance VM size only increased 2% initially and only a little

Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-24 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, Can you explain why a 64KB could be allocated for each sector write? Right now, I am testing a VM with 8G virtual disk space. The disk only has 12.6 MB free space left when I run the test. I am going to see what will happen in this test case.

[Qemu-devel] Tracing message for mu

2012-05-24 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Hi Stefan, I had a problem to launch the VM using the script that contains the Qemu options. My script used to work before updating the latest Qemu code suggested by Hans. I also tried to latest code from Freedesktop, it still failed to work either. Obviously, Qemu was broken somewhere in the

Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-23 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, Here are what we tested and found for this issue. 1. We checked the integrity of the qcow2 image by running “qemu-img check” and it looked good. 2. We monitored the I/O activities of VM using “Process monitor”, “Process explorer” and could not

Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-23 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, Thank you for information. What we worried is an endless growth of the image size. If virtual disk size is the ceiling of the max. image size to be grew, we should not have to worry about this issue. -Original Message- From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-23 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Thanks. Good alternative view. -Original Message- From: Michael Tokarev [mailto:m...@tls.msk.ru] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:11 PM To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部; Jonah.Wu-吳君勉-研究發展部; qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps

[Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-21 Thread Charles . Tsai--
We created a qcow2 based-image for a VM whose size is big when it is created. When a VM is launched, it is a instance VM image which refers to the based-image. Initially, the image size of instance VM is smaller than that of the based-mage. But we found the image size of the instance VM kept

Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-21 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, We can run a tool to see if there is any active I/O or not. Does the image size shrink back if an I/O activity stops? What we found here is that the image size kept growing. If this problem persists, it could eat up the entire disk space. -Original Message- From: Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] The image size of instance VM keeps growing

2012-05-21 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, Thank you for information. We will try to isolate the issue here and give you an update. -Original Message- From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 9:24 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Jonah.Wu-吳君勉-研究發展部 Subject:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-03-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Christophe, Great!, we finally are at the same page. -Original Message- From: Christophe Fergeau [mailto:cferg...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:13 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld; qemu-devel; Michael Roth; Paul Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部;

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-03-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, My colleague will give you more information we found here. Qemu somehow in this particular case returns a wrong bar0 value. In working case, the bar0 is 0xc140. But in failure case, the bar0 is changed to 0xC141. -Original Message- From: Vadim Rozenfeld

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-03-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Hi Vadim, We recently encountered with many issues with new Windows Virio driver running on Qemu 1.0 and Qemu 1.0.50. My initial investigation was found that the new Viro driver could not be installed before Qemu 1.0.50. But my colleague right now can install the new

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-03-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, What do you mean qemu configuration string? Is it the build configuration or command line option? Please let me know it. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 5:17 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Michael

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-02-07 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, Thanks. I tested Windows guest OS driver the over qemu-kvm-devel 1.0.50 from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git and it worked. The latest Windows guest driver from (https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/) seems to have to work with Qemu 1.0.50. My previous test ran over Qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-02-06 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, I did the same test again today and no luck to made it work. Let us what you find since we might have missed some points when we did the test. -Original Message- From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 2:14 AM To:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-02-03 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, We tested the free build driver on 32-bit Windows 7 and the symptom was the same. In other words, the latest driver source from https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/ is buggy and it was not workable at all. -Original Message- From: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Sent: Friday, February

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-02-02 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, I downloaded the latest Windows guest driver code from (https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/) and built the test binary driver code. When I tested the release build Vioserial driver on 64-bit Windows 7, the driver seemed to wait for something to happen and the update driver Windows dialog

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-23 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, Thanks. We will download the code from Yan's repository. -Original Message- From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:48 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, It is SMP system. -Original Message- From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:58 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon Levy; qemu-devel Subject:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, We built it from the driver source. Up to this moment, we always use the same binary to test Qemu. -Original Message- From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:39 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi;

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Alon, Thank you for your information and we will use it if we need to find the bug next time. -Original Message- From: Alon Levy [mailto:al...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:26 PM To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部; qemu-devel; Michael Roth; Vadim Rozenfeld;

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-19 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, We downloaded the driver source from the following website. === wget --no-check-certificate https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/virtio-win-prewhql-0.1-15-sources.zip -Original Message- From:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-18 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, I tested on Qemu 1.0.50. and found the VioSerial driver had problem to install on 64-bit Win7 guest. During the driver installation, the system hung after the driver being installed. After I rebooted the guest OS, the Vioserial driver work. The hang system seemed to be found only during

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-16 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, I just ran the Qemu monitor to get the PCI information. The information is listed belowe. From the listed information, I did not see anything wrong with the BAR0. --- INFO: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: PCI device 8086:1237 id Bus 0, device 1,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-16 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Stefan, We need the spice support in Qemu. Does qemu-kvm 1.0 support for spice? -Original Message- From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 4:37 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Vadim Rozenfeld; Alon Levy; spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-16 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Dominique, Thank you for your information and we will try it here. From: Dominique Rodrigues [mailto:dominique.rodrig...@nanocloud.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 5:51 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi; spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Vadim

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-16 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, I am sorry that it was my mistake because I did not see there was a PIC device which was created with no device driver installed. Instead of updating the driver, I ran the hardware installation wizard to install the Vioserial driver. As such, the system could not install the device

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

2012-01-15 Thread Charles . Tsai--
Vadim, Thank you for your prompt reply. Here are the information for our test case. 1) we use the following command line to launch the guest OS /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name win_xp -uuid d9388815-ddd3-c38e-33c2-a9d5fcc7a775