Re: [Qemu-discuss] Command to restore physical memory

2018-09-17 Thread Vincenzo Romano
mentation on a VM and it would be convenient to > restore a specific region of memory from a file. > > > Thanks in advance, > Vincent -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Monitor mode with -display curses

2018-08-22 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2018 at 09:17:39PM +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > >> But I would then get "just" the monitor. Not the console. > >> I need both. > >> Thanks anyway. > > > > I'm not sure if I'm following you... if you have '-display curses' > > you'll alread

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Monitor mode with -display curses

2018-08-21 Thread Vincenzo Romano
But I would then get "just" the monitor. Not the console. I need both. Thanks anyway. 2018-08-21 14:20 GMT+02:00 Alberto Garcia : > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 06:15:21PM +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > >> Is there a way to get to the monitor commands when using the opti

[Qemu-discuss] Monitor mode with -display curses

2018-08-20 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Hi all. Is there a way to get to the monitor commands when using the option "-display curses"? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] windows xp

2018-08-08 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Il mer 8 ago 2018, 15:47 vhh ha scritto: > it works fine or what info do you need? > Give a look here: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking >From your answer I'd say you need some more studying. Basically, either your VM has full networking just like you host does, or it's an

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Windows xp

2018-08-08 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Il mer 8 ago 2018, 15:42 vhh ha scritto: > I have a problem with running windows xp on qemu, I'm running this as > the qemu command line ``qemu-system-i386 --enable-kvm -m 2048 -drive > file=Desktop/winxp.img -netdev user,id=user.0 -device > rtl8139,netdev=user.0``. > > The problem is that I

Re: [Qemu-discuss] How can i detect a vm is crashed?

2018-08-08 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Non a reliable one. How could a VM supervisor know whether a VM is actually "working"? That's one of the purposes of the guest-agent. Give the " monitor" a try, anyway. -- Vincenzo Romano Il mer 8 ago 2018, 13:12 司兵松 ha scritto: > Thanks! > > The qemu-guest-agent i

Re: [Qemu-discuss] How can i detect a vm is crashed?

2018-08-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I forgot to mention the Monitor, if available. The "info status" would give you a lean status of the VM: either running or paused. I think the best way is QMP and, of course, the qemu-guest-agent running inside the VM. 2018-08-07 17:32 GMT+02:00 Vincenzo Romano : > Ping cannot

Re: [Qemu-discuss] How can i detect a vm is crashed?

2018-08-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Ping cannot be a solution. If you have QMP in place, just issue a "query-status". If not, you need to use the ol' school VNC console (or whatever applies). -- Vincenzo Romano Il mar 7 ago 2018, 17:27 司兵松 ha scritto: > > Hello everyone, > > How can i detect a vm is c

[Qemu-discuss] ata3.00: failed command: WRITE DMA

2018-07-11 Thread Vincenzo Romano
it. Any hint? Thanks in advance. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Live VM backup

2017-08-30 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-08-30 11:58 GMT+02:00 Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>: > On Wed, 08/30 11:45, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> 2017-08-30 11:40 GMT+02:00 Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>: >> > On Wed, 08/30 11:16, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> >> 2017-08-30 10:53 GMT+02:00 Fam Zheng &

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Live VM backup

2017-08-30 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-08-30 11:40 GMT+02:00 Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>: > On Wed, 08/30 11:16, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> 2017-08-30 10:53 GMT+02:00 Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>: >> > On Wed, 08/30 08:17, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> >> Il 30 ago 2017 05:19, "Fam Zheng&qu

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Live VM backup

2017-08-30 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-08-30 10:53 GMT+02:00 Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>: > On Wed, 08/30 08:17, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> Il 30 ago 2017 05:19, "Fam Zheng" <f...@redhat.com> ha scritto: >> >> On Tue, 08/29 18:32, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> > I'd like to move

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Live VM backup

2017-08-30 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Il 30 ago 2017 05:19, "Fam Zheng" <f...@redhat.com> ha scritto: On Tue, 08/29 18:32, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > I'd like to move away from "another virtualization solution" to QEmu. > I've more or less all the needed bits in my hands in order to define, > r

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Live VM backup

2017-08-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
is is a good piece of news. I still think that libvirt is not doing something qemu-kvm cannot do on its own. And I am willing to know how, as I said earlier. On 29/08/17 19:52, Vincenzo Romano wrote: Il 29 ago 2017 6:49 PM, "Aleksei" <alex3...@zoho.com> ha scritto: Why not use

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Live VM backup

2017-08-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
tarts with "copy this XML file and customize it" and there's little or no documentation about that XML. And because I need to understand the hardcore stuff before going the soft way. On 29/08/17 19:32, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > I'd like to move away from "another virtualizat

[Qemu-discuss] Live VM backup

2017-08-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
its files and the startup script on another QEmu host. But my main objective is to do the backup while the VM is running. I think I could use the snapshot feature, but have no idea on how to proceed. Any hint? P.S. I am not going to use libvirt-based stuff. Just QEmu and KVM. -- Vincenzo Romano - N

Re: [Qemu-discuss] How to stop `qemu-system-x86_64 ...` instead of `kill -9`?

2017-07-12 Thread Vincenzo Romano
SSH be involved in this? The socket is local (TCP over 127.x.y.x) and I connect only with SSH to the QEMU host. If needed, I add a TCPForward from my station to that socket. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] How to stop `qemu-system-x86_64 ...` instead of `kill -9`?

2017-07-12 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I stop `qemu-system-x86_64` instead of `kill -9`? Use `virsh` > command or something? > > Thank you~ I hate virsh/libvirt. I use the qemu monitor commands via SSH. See http://download.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#pcsys_005fmonitor -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Networking with Ubuntu 17.04

2017-06-15 Thread Vincenzo Romano
04-17, 3+ years ago and maybe it's not able to run a kernel released a few months ago. Besides that, have you tried a "virtio-net" device? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] taking screenshots from remote VM

2017-03-02 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I think you haven't installed a graphical Linux. Where are you running the screenshot program? The host, the guest or the client? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS Il 02 mar 2017 19:14, "behrouz khosravi" <bz.khosr...@

Re: [Qemu-discuss] virtual disks perfermonca <=2MB/s

2017-02-20 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I am glad I misunderstood your report! Someone else already suggested you to test "bare bones" disk I/O performances -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-02-20 14:07 GMT+01:00 Mimiko <vbv...@gmail.com>: >

[Qemu-discuss] New web site!

2017-02-06 Thread Vincenzo Romano
When going to the qemu.org with your brwoser, you'll be redirected to the new website qemu-project.org! You're all invited! Bring your (virtual) glass to toast it! -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu -cpu host

2017-02-06 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Which version of qemu are you using? Which version of the kernel are you running? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-02-06 12:19 GMT+01:00 akhilesh rawat <akhileshrawat...@gmail.com>: > [root@centos qemu]# /usr/libexec

Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu -cpu host

2017-02-06 Thread Vincenzo Romano
ridge" cpu (that'd be your Intel Xeon E312xx) instead of host and - check the "Recognized CPUID flags" from the output of "qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu help" ? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

Re: [Qemu-discuss] keyboards for ncurses

2017-02-02 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-02-02 11:16 GMT+01:00 Alberto Garcia : > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:33:12AM +0100, Narcis Garcia wrote: > >> Only solved for english keys. Examples for spanish ñ and french ç: > > I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but if all you want is to use > your Linux VM with a

Re: [Qemu-discuss] ASCII, Unicode and keyboards for ncurses

2017-02-01 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Which characters don't match? Have you tried the proper -k option? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-02-01 18:08 GMT+01:00 Narcis Garcia <informat...@actiu.net>: > I don't know if it's a SeaBIOS problem but, when I use

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-02-01 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-02-01 12:27 GMT+01:00 Narcis Garcia : > screen allows you to set names to sessions, for use them to attach to > those sessions. > p.e.: > screen -S machine1 -d -m qemu ... It looks like the use of key sequences like CTRL+ALT+F2 is tricky in curses mode from a SSH

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-02-01 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-02-01 16:24 GMT+01:00 Narcis Garcia : > No text installer in Ubuntu? > I remember releases with "alternate install" media. I am talking about "Ubuntu Server" not "Ubuntu" (desktop). >> 2017-02-01 15:20 GMT+01:00 Narcis Garcia : >>> Qemu will

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-02-01 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-02-01 15:20 GMT+01:00 Narcis Garcia : > Qemu will provide some graphics adaptor to guest anyway. If you don't > specify one, Qemu will use whatever default is for your version. > > I use "-vga qxl" with the hope it's the less resources consuming if guest is > not asking

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-02-01 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2017-02-01 14:40 GMT+01:00 Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:25:17PM +0100, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> I think the BIOS itself is preventing the curses mode to work. How >> can I "fix"this? > > What's happening is that your

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-02-01 Thread Vincenzo Romano
0 x 600 Graphic mode" in the center... and then nothing else, despite I have asked for a "splash-time=5". I think the BIOS itself is preventing the curses mode to work. How can I "fix"this? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBV

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-01-31 Thread Vincenzo Romano
seems that both are incompatible with -daemonize: aren't they going to the VNC connection through the VGA? > On 31 January 2017 20:48:57 GMT+03:00, Vincenzo Romano > <vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it> wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> I need to create a number of VM to be used as Lin

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-01-31 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Because in case the network is non working or you need to operate the BIOS or the bootloader you cannot use them. As well as there's any trouble during the boot... -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- cel. +39 339 8083886 tel. +39 0823 454163 fax. +39 02 700506964 -- NON

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-01-31 Thread Vincenzo Romano
am using "-vga virtio" that is a full blown VGA. I am thinking about a PC with just 80x25 screen. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-01-31 19:47 GMT+01:00 A. Wan <j...@mokwan.com>: > On Tue, January 31, 2017 09:

[Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-01-31 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Hi all. I need to create a number of VM to be used as Linux servers. I am planning to use only a VNC console. Can I disable the VGA settings (-vga none) and only use the BBC server? If not, what's the minimal (as far as the host resources are concerned) configuration for the local text-only

Re: [Qemu-discuss] VGA choices

2017-01-31 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Sorry for the typo: BBC=VNC Il 31 gen 2017 18:48, "Vincenzo Romano" <vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it> ha scritto: Hi all. I need to create a number of VM to be used as Linux servers. I am planning to use only a VNC console. Can I disable the VGA settings (-vga none) and only us

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Virtually (dis)connect the ethernet cable

2017-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I filed a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659267 -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-01-25 12:52 GMT+01:00 Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it>: > Fam, > despite it makes sense, your suggestion look

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Virtually (dis)connect the ethernet cable

2017-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Fam, despite it makes sense, your suggestion looks a lot like a workaround to a missing feature. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-01-25 12:49 GMT+01:00 Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>: > On Wed, 01/25 12:38, Vincenzo Rom

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Virtually (dis)connect the ethernet cable

2017-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Hi Steffen! Thanks for the info. Is there a way to start a VM with the cable disconnected? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-01-25 11:55 GMT+01:00 Steffen Weißgerber <weissgerb...@ksnb.de>: > Hello, > > you have to

[Qemu-discuss] Virtually (dis)connect the ethernet cable

2017-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I'd like to know how to virtually disconnect and connect the ethernet cable on a VM (I am using virtio). When "disconnected", the ethernet adapter should still be visible by the guest, but with the cable being disconnected. I mean, both the command line and the monitor commands. TIA. -

Re: [Qemu-discuss] KVM command to to launch console in VNC

2017-01-23 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I use something like this: ... -vnc 127.72.42.2:0 where 127.72.42.2 is the IP where the VNC server will be listening to. The ":0" is to select the first local console. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2017-01-23 10:10

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Some not working devices in Windows 10 guest

2017-01-04 Thread Vincenzo Romano
There's an answer about it. Read previous messages. Il 04 gen 2017 17:18, "Nerijus Baliunas" ha scritto: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:38:52 + Xi Shen wrote: > > > I have installed all the drivers shipped with that ISO, plus the qemu > >

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Some not working devices in Windows 10 guest

2017-01-03 Thread Vincenzo Romano
There is an overall benefit with virtio as it is more efficient on both the host and the guest. Then, during the installation, before the media selection and the actual partitioning you are given a chance to install extra drivers. That's the moment the drivers are needed. Il 04 gen 2017 02:12,

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Reducing guest cpu usage

2016-12-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I think you have to provide much more details: Qemu version Host CPU and OS Guest CPU and OS Application details Il 29 dic 2016 07:27, "Programmingkid" ha scritto: > There is a program that I run inside of QEMU that doesn't use the virtual > CPU very efficiently. It

Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-system-x86_64 hangs in 1024 x 768 Graphic mode when using -curses

2016-12-13 Thread Vincenzo Romano
I presume that your Fedora is trying to use a graphics mode to display its logo and fancy boot progression bar. Try using another quemu-system binary with graphics support (like -spice). -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2016-12-13 16:42 GMT+01:00 Kevin Wilson

Re: [Qemu-discuss] monitor documentation

2016-12-10 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Great, Thomas! Thanks. I would merge that page in the qemu.org documentation, though. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 2016-12-11 8:19 GMT+01:00 Thomas Huth <h...@tuxfamily.org>: > On 11.12.2016 08:13, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> Hi. >>

[Qemu-discuss] monitor documentation

2016-12-10 Thread Vincenzo Romano
i/QEMU/Monitor but I think there should be more. Like commands to control ACPI and the likes. Any hint? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT Information Technologies -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS

[Qemu-discuss] Null or unplugged ethernet

2016-12-09 Thread Vincenzo Romano
) ethernet interface for this VM is defined like this: -device virtio-net-pci,mac=02:19:3e:39:a5:de,netdev=net0 -netdev bridge,id=net0,br=br0 Any help? -- Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS