Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers revisited

2012-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 17:47 +, Tom Hanrahan wrote: > Ben, > > I know you worked with Mike Sterling earlier to integrate the Hyper-V > device drivers into the Debian Wheezy release. We really appreciate > the effort you took to do the work. Now that some customers (one in > particular, Vyatt

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-26 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:54 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mike Sterling; Andy Whitcroft; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org; Ubuntu > kernel > team; Tom Hanrahan > Subject: Re: Debia

Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
ts.debian.org; Ubuntu > > kernel > > team; Tom Hanrahan > > Subject: Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers > > > > On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 22:31 +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > [...] > > > As I told you I am currently implementing IP injection via KVP. Is >

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-26 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:28 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mike Sterling; Andy Whitcroft; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org; Ubuntu > kernel > team; Tom Hanrahan > Subject: Re: Debia

Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 22:31 +, KY Srinivasan wrote: [...] > As I told you I am currently implementing IP injection via KVP. Is > there standard for how the IP > configuration will be persistently stored and flushed. As I look at > current distros each of them have > different files for saving

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-26 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:10 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mike Sterling; Andy Whitcroft; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org; Ubuntu > kernel > team; Tom Hanrahan > Subject: Re: Debia

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-25 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:10 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mike Sterling; Andy Whitcroft; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org; Ubuntu > kernel > team; Tom Hanrahan > Subject: Re: Debia

Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:32 +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > Ben, > > Sorry to be top posting; since I got into this thread late and I was > only commenting on one item, I felt top posting was appropriate. > Thanks for the patches and the analysis. With regards to question 4, > why do you say the pro

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-25 Thread KY Srinivasan
rinivasan; Tom Hanrahan > Subject: RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers > > (actually adding KY and Tom this time) > > > -Original Message- > > From: Mike Sterling > > Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 9:07 PM > > To: 'Ben Hutchings' > > Cc: Andy Wh

Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 16:18 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > The problems I've found so far (by inspection): > > 1. The daemon leaks a file handle on every configuration update. Fixed by the attached 'tools-hv-fix-file-handle-leak.patch' > 2. It doesn't check for write failures, and it doesn'

Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-06-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 23:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:33:23PM +, Mike Sterling wrote: [...] > > We've done a lot of work with Andy Whitcroft at Canonical to get the > > drivers integrated into Ubuntu 12.04 and higher. What we'd like to > > discuss is doing the sam

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-05-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 15:11 +, Mike Sterling wrote: > On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:52 PM, Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] > wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 01:37 +, Mike Sterling wrote: > > > > > > Great, thanks. We've done some investigation into the current status > > > of Whe

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-05-16 Thread Mike Sterling
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:52 PM, Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] wrote: > On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 01:37 +, Mike Sterling wrote: > > > > Great, thanks. We've done some investigation into the current status > > of Wheezy on Hyper-V, and as of 3.2.0-2, there's about a five patch > > di

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-05-15 Thread Mike Sterling
On Monday, May 14, 2012 3:22 PM, Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] wrote: > > Let me introduce myself - my team is part of the Open Source > > Technology Center at Microsoft, and we're responsible for a set of > > drivers in the Linux kernel to provide an optimized experience for > > ru

RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 01:37 +, Mike Sterling wrote: > On Monday, May 14, 2012 3:22 PM, Ben Hutchings [mailto:b...@decadent.org.uk] > wrote: > > > > Let me introduce myself - my team is part of the Open Source > > > Technology Center at Microsoft, and we're responsible for a set of > > > drive

Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

2012-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:33:23PM +, Mike Sterling wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Let me introduce myself - my team is part of the Open Source > Technology Center at Microsoft, and we're responsible for a set of > drivers in the Linux kernel to provide an optimized experience for > running paravirtuali