[Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-21 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
Hi, Recently,I am testing windows guest driver on Win7 and WinXP(32bit) with the latest windows guest driver development source. Download from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/ virtio-blk: It seems OK both on Win7 and WinXP,the r/w performance is

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-24 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
Hi,all Thanks,Frenkel.The test application of the balloon must be run as admin. But I found 2 problems(question) this week when testing windows guest drivers: * If only virtio serial driver installed,the virtio serial test app can not enumerate/find the virtio serial device,

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-24 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 09:59 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: > Hi,all > > > Thanks,Frenkel.The test application of the balloon must be run as > admin. > > > > But I found 2 problems(question) this week when testing windows guest > drivers: > > > * > If only virtio serial driver installed

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-28 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
Hi, Rozenfeld,Thanks,got it! And do you know whether there are some sufficient test tools (such as IOmeter) to test the virtio driver performance? On 11/25/2011 02:42 PM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 09:59 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: Hi,all Thanks,Frenkel.The te

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-28 Thread Mark Wu
Total physical memory on Windows will always be the same, because we don't hot-plug/unplug physical memory. Balloon driver works with non-paged pool memory instead. So, every time you inflate or deflate balloon in your system, you should see "Available memory" is changing, while physical will al

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-29 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 08:58 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: > Hi, > > Rozenfeld,Thanks,got it! > > And do you know whether there are some sufficient test tools (such > as IOmeter) > to test the virtio driver performance? IoMeter is good. But you also might be interested in SQLIOSim, da

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-29 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 10:43 +0800, Mark Wu wrote: > > Total physical memory on Windows will always be the same, > > because we don't hot-plug/unplug physical memory. > > Balloon driver works with non-paged pool memory instead. > > So, every time you inflate or deflate balloon in your system, > > yo

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-12-04 Thread Cao,Bing Bu
On 11/29/2011 08:36 PM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 08:58 +0800, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: Hi, Rozenfeld,Thanks,got it! And do you know whether there are some sufficient test tools (such as IOmeter) to test the virtio driver performance? IoMeter is good. But you al

Re: [Qemu-devel] windows guest virtio serial and balloon driver test issues

2011-11-21 Thread Arkady Frenkel
On 11/21/2011 10:39 AM, Cao,Bing Bu wrote: > Hi, > > Recently,I am testing windows guest driver on Win7 and > WinXP(32bit) with the latest windows guest driver development source. > Download from > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/ > > > virtio-blk: > It