Re: Question About TCP Reassembly Inside VImages

2008-11-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Jason Fines wrote: Hello all, I've got a question about setting the sysctl variable net.inet.tcp.reass.maxsegments to a non-zero value inside my vimages. I'm currently running the FreeBSD 7 with the VIMAGE package available at http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/vimage_7-20081015.tgz. My problem

Re: PERFORCE change 154309 for review (etc.)

2008-12-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Marko, I'm following along using p4 and the diff script. It looks good.. If it all seems to be working we should commit what you have and then we should get Kris and Robert to try some of their benchmarks.. to confirm the numbers you saw earlier. Kris, the change that is upcoming for the next

Re: Network Virtualizing

2008-12-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Wilkinson, Alex wrote: Some of you may find this an interesting read: Crossbow - Network Virtualization Architecture Comes to Life [http://blogs.sun.com/sunay/entry/crossbow_network_virtualization_architecture_comes] Interesting reading.. This is the equivalent of a combination of a numb

Re: Problems with IGMPv3 and VIMAGE

2008-12-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Bruce Simpson wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: virtualisation of netisr at teh moment is still in flux a bit. the netisr thread (that's all it really is) becomes associated with a particular vimage as required. (but hey... read the code.. :-) http://perforce.freebsd.org/fileLogView.cgi

Vimage globals vs structures measurements.

2009-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
anyone who has commands and args for their favourite thing the'd like me to test... send it in.. so far using ttcp I have seem no measureable difference. but I have more tests to do of course.. for example throughput with small packets with ttcp (KB/Sec) x VIMAGE_GLOBALS + NO_VIMAGE_GLO

Re: Vimage globals vs structures measurements.

2009-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: anyone who has commands and args for their favourite thing the'd like me to test... send it in.. so far using ttcp I have seem no measureable difference. but I have more tests to do of course.. for example throughput with small packets with ttcp (KB/Sec)...

Re: Vimage globals vs structures measurements.

2009-02-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: anyone who has commands and args for their favourite thing the'd like me to test... send it in.. so far using ttcp I have seem no measureable difference. but I have more tests to do of course.. for example throughput with small packets

Re: More open sockets with vimages?

2009-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Ragnar Lonn wrote: Hi all, I am a longtime (well, since 2004 or so) vimage user. It's really nice to see this great stuff getting into the main branch! I have a quick question for the list: I want to be able to have a machine handle a *lot* of open network connections. Many systems have var

Vimage next step

2009-02-19 Thread Julian Elischer
I've been doing performance testing on the 'non-vimage' 'structified' case VS the original 'globals' case and have not been able to see any really significant differences (though I have seen very slight differences in the distribution of results). SO I think we are in the position of moving forwa

Re: Vimage next step

2009-02-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: I've been doing performance testing on the 'non-vimage' 'structified' case VS the original 'globals' case and have not been able to see any really significant differences (though I have seen very slight differences in the distribution of

Re: how to move physical interface into multiple vimage interfaces

2009-04-02 Thread Julian Elischer
subbsd wrote: Hello maillist i fetch and apply latest http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/vimage-20081015.tgz patches for 7.2 i386 for testing vimage. All according man page work done. Small bug: vimage -i with 1 arguments make core dumped: # vimage -i onearg Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Re: VIMAGE

2009-05-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Peter Cornelius wrote: Hi, Are vimage and jail mutually exclusive? no The situation is that right now jail and vimage are orthogonal (ish) however in the future, vimage will become a set of options on jail. Regards, Peter. Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15

Re: VIMAGE status

2009-05-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Olivier SMEDTS wrote: 2009/5/2 Julian Elischer : The VIMAGE code is nearly all in the the kernel. One is now able to make VIMAGE kernels (add options VIMAGE) though they don't actually allow you to make multiple vimages instances yet.. The VIMAGE option enables all the low level ch

Re: VIMAGE status

2009-05-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Olivier SMEDTS wrote: 2009/5/2 Julian Elischer : can you just put #ifdef INVARIANTS around that line and do the compile again? It now compiles without errors. yeah my svn machine went back to Cisco when I left there, so I don't have an svn tree at the moment. otherwise I'd

Re: VIMAGE

2009-05-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Peter Cornelius wrote: Re... The situation is that right now jail and vimage are orthogonal (ish) however in the future, vimage will become a set of options on jail. Ah. SO it probably is kinda useless to try and stick a couple of jails 'inside' a vimage. no you will be able to nest jails.

Re: VIMAGE

2009-05-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Peter Cornelius wrote: Re... The situation is that right now jail and vimage are orthogonal (ish) however in the future, vimage will become a set of options on jail. Ah. SO it probably is kinda useless to try and stick a couple of jails

Re: Hierarchical jails

2009-05-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Jamie Gritton wrote: Here's the first round of hierarchical jails under the new framework. Instead of creds having either a prison or a NULL pointer, they all have a prison pointer with the default being the global "prison0" that contains information about the real environment. Jailed root may

Re: PERFORCE change 161987 for review

2009-05-12 Thread Julian Elischer
Marko Zec wrote: http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=161987 Change 161987 by z...@zec_tpx32 on 2009/05/12 18:47:49 Back out O(n**2) ad-hoc hack for searching for available ifunits in cloning ifnets, and restore the standard O(n) bitmapped searching / ifunit allocation

Re: Hierarchical jails

2009-05-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Jamie Gritton wrote: There's still a change to offer your input on the new jails before they go in! OK, given the lack of response so far, it's less "still a chance" than "please?". Current plans are to have this in place for 8.0, with connections to the ongoing Vimage work. Hopefully the sile

Re: Hierarchical jails

2009-05-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Jilles Tjoelker wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:12:50AM -0600, Jamie Gritton wrote: There's still a change to offer your input on the new jails before they go in! OK, given the lack of response so far, it's less "still a chance" than "please?". Current plans are to have this in place for 8.0

Re: Kernel Compiled with options VIMAGE panics on boot

2009-05-17 Thread Julian Elischer
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2009, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: Hi, I've tried to compile a new kernel once again after updating src, this time it bombs out during the build process. http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6164/img1064.jpg yes, we are aware of that one and the patch is easy a

Re: svn commit: r192351 - head/sys/netinet

2009-05-19 Thread Julian Elischer
John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 19 May 2009 1:11:55 pm Julian Elischer wrote: John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 18 May 2009 6:34:44 pm Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Author: bz Date: Mon May 18 22:34:44 2009 New Revision: 192351 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/192351 Log: Revert the logical

Re: Panic in netgraph with VIMAGE

2009-05-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Marko Zec wrote: On Monday 25 May 2009 15:06:27 Milan Obuch wrote: Hi, there is some bug in (most probably) netgraph code. I did fresh csup and rebuild today. Whenever I try to turn bluetooth on (equivalent to plugging in the dongle), panic occurs: ubt0: on usbus3 panic: in /usr/src/sys/module

Re: single image OS with multiple freebsd machines

2009-07-11 Thread Julian Elischer
V S P wrote: Hi, new to the list came across of http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Which a linux-based system that virtualizes individual machines into one cohesive OS so 4 machines with 4GB and 2 cpus each look to applications as one machine with 16GB and 8CPUs certainly looks

Re: single image OS with multiple freebsd machines

2009-07-11 Thread Julian Elischer
V S P wrote: Hi, new to the list came across of http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Which a linux-based system that virtualizes individual machines into one cohesive OS so 4 machines with 4GB and 2 cpus each look to applications as one machine with 16GB and 8CPUs I think that th

Re: Vimage vs. jails

2009-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
it's not Vimage vs Jails but Vimage as part of Jails. Peter Cornelius wrote: Hi there, I just see the vimage changes going into RELENG_8 and I now am getting my hands dirty, finally. So thanks to all involved. Just to get my head around this the right way, I understand that there is no plan t

Re: Vimage vs. jails

2009-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Pierre Guinoiseau wrote: Hi, Julian Elischer wrote: it's not Vimage vs Jails but Vimage as part of Jails. Peter Cornelius wrote: Hi there, I just see the vimage changes going into RELENG_8 and I now am getting my hands dirty, finally. So thanks to all involved. Just to get my head a

Re: interface name collisions

2009-08-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hello, It seems that there is no checking for name collisions, when an interface is claimed from a child vnet. create ngeth0 lab# ngctl mkpeer eiface ether ether create test jail lab# jail -c persist vnet name=test create nge...@test lab# jexec test ngctl mkpeer e

reducing the memory redirections needed for vnet use.

2009-09-21 Thread Julian Elischer
I've been running the folllowing set of diffs as a proof of concept change for a couple of months now. The diff is to cache the vnet address fixup constant in the pcpu area. This means that the address of V_xxx is now (%fs:pcpu_offset)+symbol (*) the cost in the machine dependent part of the sc

virtualizing pfil

2009-09-21 Thread Julian Elischer
here is a patch that effectively make pfil a per-vnet feature, this is needed because some features (notibly ipfw) are enabled and disabled by connecting and disconnecing from the network stack using pfil. Index: netinet/raw_ip.c ===

Re: Per Jail Memory Limits

2009-10-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Tom Judge wrote: Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Tom Judge <mailto:t...@tomjudge.com>> wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a patch that will add per jail memory limits so th

Re: can't find routing entry for network routes

2009-10-06 Thread Julian Elischer
remodeler wrote: I am having the same problem as Nikos I am trying to implement a vnet-enabled service jail on FreeBSD 8.0 HEAD. I have thoroughly studied the "Network stack virtualization" document written by Marko. I received troubleshooting help over several days last from Julia

Re: can't find routing entry for network routes

2009-10-06 Thread Julian Elischer
remodeler wrote: On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:37:49 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote please recap with a script that fails Thank you for your response Julian. I very much respect the work everyone has done on netgraph / vimage / jails, and also the help extended to me. Kernel options in addition to

Re: can't find routing entry for network routes

2009-10-07 Thread Julian Elischer
remodeler wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: so does this mean it's all working for you? Yes. Thank you. Will netgraph let you create a gif or other tunneling socket and plug it in directly to the graph? Would the alternative be piping a userland tunneling socket and ng_socket? there

Re: can't find routing entry for network routes

2009-10-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Ahrenholz, Jeffrey M wrote: Will netgraph let you create a gif or other tunneling socket and plug it in directly to the graph? Would the alternative be piping a userland tunneling socket and ng_socket? there is an ng_gif node but I've never used it. look in /usr/src/sys/netgraph to see what e

vnet text for release notes for FreeBSD 8.0

2009-10-29 Thread Julian Elischer
I guess we need to make a quick note for inclusion with the 8.0 release notes: I'm going to put a coupel of sentences here as straw-man starting point, and hopefully we can work on it together. In addition some recipes for some interesting things to do might be good. Maybe as a separate doc

Re: Imunes and FreeBSD 8.0 RC2

2009-11-05 Thread Julian Elischer
remodeler wrote: Hi, i have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 and wanted to play around with imunes/vimage, but i couldn't find it in the installed version (from DVD ISO). Did i just missed something, or what do i have to install something in addition? If so, FTP URLS would be helpful as my BSD ma

Re: Imunes and FreeBSD 8.0 RC2

2009-11-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Huth, Hans-Peter wrote: Hi, i have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 and wanted to play around with imunes/vimage, but i couldn't find it in the installed version (from DVD ISO). Did i just missed something, or what do i have to install something in addition? If so, FTP URLS would be helpful as m

Re: Random Page Fault on Soekris

2009-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Justin Wong wrote: Hi all, I am currently running a snapshot of the vimage source (vimage_7_20090505.tgz) against FreeBSD 7.1 on a Soekris Net5501-70. I am running a small load on the Soekris board and periodically I will receive the following error: -- Fatal trap 12: page fault while

Re: ppp in vimages?

2009-12-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Justin Wong wrote: I am having trouble getting ppp to work within vimages. Without vimages, my box is able to connect (via vr0 interface) and assign it to tun0. With vimages, I assign vr0 to it (continuing with the name vr0 instead of eth0) and ppp cannot detect it therefore I am unable to requ

Re: ppp in vimages?

2009-12-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Justin Wong wrote: I am having trouble getting ppp to work within vimages. Without vimages, my box is able to connect (via vr0 interface) and assign it to tun0. With Which version of FreeBSD are you using? FreeBSD 8.0 RC3. I upgraded it after experiencing some kernel panics with 7.1 (T

Re: ppp in vimages?

2009-12-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: possibly. but try running 'ngctl list' in the jail to list all the nodes it can see there. as well as ifconfig there might be an order dependency: try this: reboot with no netgraph nodes loaded. make the jail move vr0 to teh

Re: ppp in vimages?

2009-12-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: we would expect it to work the way you wish but it appears that we have left that out in oversight. We'll see what we can do.. (remember in 8.0 vimage is just s technology review feature and you should not be trying to use it in produ

Re: ppp in vimages?

2009-12-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: we would expect it to work the way you wish but it appears that we have left that out in oversight. We'll see what we can do.. (remember in 8.0 vimage is just s technology review feature and you should not be trying to use it in produ

Re: ppp in vimages?

2009-12-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Justin Wong wrote: That did it! Thanks. great! When I get time I'll look at making the netgraph nodes move with the interface. ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To

Re: create a vnet jail in rc.conf

2009-12-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, I'm searching for a way to create vnet jails in rc.conf. I tried it with jail_flags (-c vnet) with no success. The documentation is not very helpful, I'm missing the w

Re: create a vnet jail in rc.conf

2009-12-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Reinhard Haller wrote: Bjoern A. Zeeb schrieb: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, I'm searching for a way to create vnet jails in rc.conf. I tried it with jail_flags (-c vnet) with no success. The documentation is not very helpful, I'm missing the way to create the vnet jail and

Re: create a vnet jail in rc.conf

2009-12-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: Reinhard Haller wrote: Bjoern A. Zeeb schrieb: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, I'm searching for a way to create vnet jails in rc.conf. I tried it with jail_flags (-c vnet) with no success. The documentation is not very helpful, I'm missing

Re: create a vnet jail in rc.conf

2009-12-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Reinhard Haller wrote: Julian Elischer schrieb: Julian Elischer wrote: Reinhard Haller wrote: I tried it with the following, but suffered intermittent routing problems (route6d died and cannot be restarted): jail -c vnet name=d1 host.hostname=dns1.intern.de path=/jails/dns1 persist

Re: create a vnet jail in rc.conf

2009-12-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Reinhard Haller wrote: Julian Elischer schrieb: Julian Elischer wrote: Reinhard Haller wrote: I tried it with the following, but suffered intermittent routing problems (route6d died and cannot be restarted): jail -c vnet name=d1 host.hostname=dns1.intern.de path=/jails/dns1 persist

Re: kern/141696: [rum] [panic] rum(4)+ vimage = kernel panic

2009-12-17 Thread Julian Elischer
Venture37 wrote: The following reply was made to PR kern/141696; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Venture37 To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, ventur...@geeklan.co.uk Cc: Subject: Re: kern/141696: [rum] [panic] rum(4)+ vimage = kernel panic Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:28 + Photo of the tr

Re: i386 kernel with vimage support panics on xen/hvm domu with re(4)

2009-12-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Sevan / Venture37 wrote: Hi Guys Another PR, this time with a xen/hvm virtual machine running FreeBSD 8/i386 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141848&cat=kern looking at the images (below, for others) http://img691.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20091221at171.png/ http://img709.imageshac

Re: node naming

2009-12-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Huth, Hans-Peter wrote: Dear all, this is probably a beginners question: For my script to set up an emulation using vimage and netgraph, i tried to give meaningful names to netgraph nodes. I tried: ngctl -f foo mkpeer eiface ether ether (ignores the -f , creates ngethX?) witout looking at th

Re: Vimage Kernel Panic

2010-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Tobias Lott wrote: Good Day to everyone As subject says FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #10 r202187: Wed Jan 13 18:59:52 CET 2010 panics at boot. The only difference is, I removed options SCTP and added options VIMAGE. Either it is re Driver or pfsync in my Kernel, going to try and build a Kernel without p

Re: Network simulation using jails & vimage

2010-02-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Jim Sifferle wrote: Hi, I've used ipfw and Dummynet as well as ipfw + DSCP recognition patch and pf/altq to simulate Internet and MPLS WAN environments for several years. All of my setups have run under VMWare, which for many reasons isn't ideal. I would like to collapse all of these VMs into

Re: Network simulation using jails & vimage

2010-02-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Julian Elischer wrote: Hi, Jim Sifferle wrote: Hi, I've used ipfw and Dummynet as well as ipfw + DSCP recognition patch and pf/altq to simulate Internet and MPLS WAN environments for several years. All of my setups have run under VMWare, whic

Re: VirtualBox Headless inside a jail

2010-03-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Wolfgang Riegler wrote: Hi, I would like to setup VirtualBox headless with the VNC-patch and vboxweb inside a jail. Is this possible? I use FreeBSD 8.0-p2 amd64. regards Wolfgang ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Network simulation using jails & vimage

2010-03-05 Thread Julian Elischer
j...@sifferle.net wrote: On February 23, 2010 at 10:11 AM "Ermal Luçi" wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >>

Re: dummynet and vnet kernel panic

2010-04-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/9/10 11:14 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Anders Hagman wrote: Hi When using dummynet inside a vnet node with a simple pipe the kernel panic on the first packet. I use 8.0-STABLE cvsuped at 7 Apr 15:28 The ipfw code with dummynet is largely changed and th

Re: dummynet and vnet kernel panic

2010-04-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/9/10 7:17 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:56:31PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On 4/7/10 1:38 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Anders Hagman wrote: Note: different To: list Hi When using dummynet inside a vnet node with a simple pipe

Re: Network stack virtualization docs?

2010-06-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 6/10/10 3:07 PM, Fernando Gleiser wrote: I'm looking for some technical docs about FreeBSD's network stac virt. I saw a paper from the wiki and little else. The paper seems to focus mostly on the paralielization of the network stack more than the framework for a virtualized network. I want

Re: [patch] allow testing VIMAGE with pf in base system only

2010-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/9/10 12:22 PM, Luiz Gustavo S. Costa wrote: Hi Bjoern, I just perform tests with your patch and it worked very well! thanks for the patch ... But I found something that may be unsafe within the jail environment, I'm allowed to change /dev/pf, so that if I run a "pfctl-f /etc/pf.conf" insid

Re: VIMAGE + NDIS

2010-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/27/10 12:39 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hello, I am seeing a kernel panic with VIMAGE and NDIS. My wifi card needs NDIS and I need VIMAGE :) It is easily producible. Associate with an AP, run dhclient and then change the SSID to something random. #10 0xc0978200 in rt_dispatch (m=0xc76

Re: VIMAGE + NDIS

2010-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/27/10 10:51 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: #10 0xc0978200 in rt_dispatch (m=0xc764ad00, sa=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/net/rtsock.c:1374 1374if (V_loif) (kgdb) list 1369} 1370*(unsigned short *)(tag + 1) = sa->sa_fam

Re: [PATCH] pf(4) patch from OpenBSD 4.5

2010-10-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/18/10 11:10 AM, Ermal Luçi wrote: Hello, the link http://people.freebsd.org/~eri/pf45_1.diff has the patch for pf(4) as of OpenBSD 4.5 version. The patch is against HEAD. After OpenBSD 4.5 the syntax has changed and this is the reason for such an 'old' version patch. After importing this

limitations on jail style virtualization

2010-11-13 Thread Julian Elischer
We discussed this at MeetBSD last week and it woudl seem that the next big hurdle for virtualization would seem to be a good concept to allow jails to have virtual versions of various virtual devices.. for example pf has been virtualized (when IS that patch going to get committed?) but pfsync

Re: limitations on jail style virtualization

2010-11-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/13/10 1:30 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Julian Elischer wrote: Hi Julian, We discussed this at MeetBSD last week and it woudl seem that the next big hurdle for virtualization would seem to be a good concept to allow jails to have virtual versions of various virtual

Re: limitations on jail style virtualization

2010-11-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/13/10 1:55 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: Was this brought up in any of the discussions? http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/ no it was not brought up.. it was an unofficial non-planned discussion that errupted pretty much spontaneously an a

Re: limitations on jail style virtualization

2010-11-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/13/10 2:13 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/13/10 1:55 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: Was this brought up in any of the discussions? http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/ no it was not brought up.. it was an unofficial non-planned

Re: limitations on jail style virtualization

2010-11-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/13/10 8:27 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/13/10 2:13 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/13/10 1:55 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: Was this brought up in any of the discussions? http://www

Re: limitations on jail style virtualization

2010-11-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/14/10 11:43 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Julian Elischer wrote: Julian, this sort of dovetails into something I've been thinking about for a while, which is NUMA support. really good thoughts, but bad timing and wrong target audience I think. I don't

Re: ng_iface problems with VIMAGE

2010-12-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/11/10 4:49 PM, William Phillips wrote: Hello: The following script creates a point-to-point link between jails. I will admit that I don't remember ever actually connecting two ng_iface nodes directly to each other. Having said htat there the epair(4) driver which is specifically desig

Re: loading ng_ether results in symbol ifnet undefined on mips

2010-12-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/29/10 8:54 AM, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi, I am running FreeBSD Current 201010 on RouterStation Pro (mips CPU). I recompiled the kernel with the following options: options VIMAGE device epair options NULLFS but when I try to load ng_ether I get this error: lin

Re: smbfs on VIMAGE kernel

2011-01-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/11/11 11:42 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: Hi, With the attached patch I can mount and use samba fs on current built with VIMAGE option. but what does that actually MEAN? you are in a jail you have your own stack. you mount a filesystem. When someone outside the jail (who can see that point i

Re: if_bridge VIMAGE patch

2011-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/13/11 4:42 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, Please, review the attached patch. It is against yesterday's HEAD and it virtualizes if_bridge. without examining every character, it looks ok. The script should go in /usr/share/examples/netgraph Bjoern/Marko, see any problems? You can

Re: VirtualBox + VIMAGE

2011-01-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/23/11 6:33 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: Hi, Sorry for cross posting, but this question concerns both VirtualBox and VIMAGE :-). I would like to be able to run VirtualBox on my desktop, with kernel compilled with VIMAGE, so I would use light vnet jails for FreeBSD VMs and VirtualBox for other

Re: VirtualBox + VIMAGE

2011-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/25/11 1:06 PM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:44:41 -0800 Julian Elischer wrote: JE> On 1/23/11 6:33 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: >> As a quick fix I added in VBoxNetFlt-freebsd.c in all "problem" functions >> CURVNET_SET_QUIET(vnet0) macro,

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/1/11 8:40 AM, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi, I hope I am on the write place, second try... I have written a module that loads fake wifi devices (wtap?) and distributes packets between them. For now I use route command to route packets between them from upper layers (TCP,...). I want to tak

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/1/11 11:04 AM, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/1/11 8:40 AM, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi, I hope I am on the write place, second try... I have written a module that loads fake wifi devices (wtap?) and distributes packets between

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
2/ maybe you juaast have to interate through all the vimages.. to do whatever it is that you do (that happens in some protocols) On 2/1/11 11:04 AM, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/1/11 8:40 AM, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi, I

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-02 Thread Julian Elischer
//depot/projects/vimage/porting_to_vimage.txt&REV=18 use the 'download' button to get a more readable version. it goes into some of the details of this. especially the initialization or vimage modules. I still get a panic... br, On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: ok

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/2/11 8:42 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/2/11 7:06 AM, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Thanx makes more sense, but I have noticed something weired if you can shade some light on. I added printfs one when the module is first loaded (static int event_handler(module_t module, int event, void

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/2/11 9:12 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi, Thanx makes more sense, but I have noticed something weired if you can shade some light on. I added printfs one when the module is first loaded (static int event_handler(module_t module, int event, voi

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-02 Thread Julian Elischer
ith this hack? br, P.S. I have printed "porting to vnet" text to have it always at hand, but its a bit hard for me... doing my best. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/2/11 9:12 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: Hi,

Re: simulating wireless device (if_alloc panic, VirtualBox, VIMAGE)

2011-02-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/3/11 2:59 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote: I don't understand why you saw a CRED_TO_VNET of 0 I was under the impression that every process/thread in the system would be on vnet0 in a vimage kernel. This is how my printf looks like: struct thread

Re: HEADS UP: tenetative plan to merge VIMAGE parts

2011-02-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/3/11 11:47 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, I will be at FOSDEM this weekend (if you are as well and want to talk, send me an email off list or try to find me in the crowds). When back next week I plan to extract the initial parts from perforce and merge them to SVN. This will include: 1) vn

Re: userland utilites for specific version use the current kernel API

2011-03-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 3/10/11 9:13 PM, Subbsd wrote: Hi. i have a server with FreeBSD-current (9) kernel and core system that runs a dozen JAIL-s - some of them is FreeBSD 8x environment , and part is surrounded on FreeBSD 7x. My question - despite on COMPAT_FREEBSD{4-7} in the kernel, utilities do not use those s

Re: VIMAGE and pf?

2011-06-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On 6/18/11 3:53 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote: Is VIMAGE supposed to be compatible with pf? On r223207 (8-stable) I'm getting a panic when pfctl loads the rules: no they are not compatible.. there are comatibilty patches but we have so far failed to get them into the tree. Fatal trap 12: page fa

Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?

2011-09-06 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/6/11 8:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 7 September 2011 09:32, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Hocking wrote: Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of network interfaces that are offered by VMWare& Virtual box. I know that on some Linux VM

question on Bhyve

2011-09-26 Thread Julian Elischer
does anyone know what is needed for a hypervisor to support PCI pass through? ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualizati

Re: question on Bhyve

2011-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/27/11 1:35 PM, Neel Natu wrote: Hi Julian, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: does anyone know what is needed for a hypervisor to support PCI pass through? I can speak about the bhyve implementation of pci passthru but I suspect that other hypervisors do it

Re: [Announcement] VPS // OS Virtualization // alpha release

2012-09-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/31/12 4:27 PM, Klaus P. Ohrhallinger wrote: Hello! I'm pleased to announce the first feature-complete alpha version of my virtualization project VPS: http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/ Besides a diff there are also prebuilt binary sets available that can be easily installed using pkg_add. I

virtualbox, PCBSD and NAT mode

2013-05-11 Thread Julian Elischer
I have been unable to get NAT mode to work for me. (bridging seems to work fine) is it known to be broken or otherwise fussy in freebsd 9.1? I have it under PCBSD 9.1 and installed the PBI.. other than the problem with NAT mode it seems to be working fine. but that is a deal breaker for when I

Re: bhyve a no on rootbsd

2013-09-09 Thread Julian Elischer
RootBSD virtual hosts are already virtualised (Xen). I doubt you can run bhyve on Xen. On 9/9/13 4:47 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: The host: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (2400.06-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x206c2 Family = 0x6 Model = 0x2c Stepp

Xen (and others Hypervisors) how do they handle IPIs?

2013-09-25 Thread Julian Elischer
If CPUs are mapped around, how are IPIs handled? I assume they must be emulated? I've noticed that under Xen (on both Amazon EC2 and a Redhat server) whenever you schedule a thread it always sits on the run queue for 20 uSecs before it starts running. It looks to me like it's the IPI taking a

Re: Xen (and others Hypervisors) how do they handle IPIs?

2013-09-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/25/13 11:04 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On 25/09/13 16:56, Julian Elischer wrote: If CPUs are mapped around, how are IPIs handled? I assume they must be emulated? I've noticed that under Xen (on both Amazon EC2 and a Redhat server) whenever you schedule a thread it always sits on th

Re: Xen (and others Hypervisors) how do they handle IPIs?

2013-09-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/26/13 4:16 PM, Peter Grehan wrote: Hi Julian, If CPUs are mapped around, how are IPIs handled? I assume they must be emulated? For bhyve, if the target vCPU of an IPI is running, a null IPI is sent on the host to force it to exit so the IPI can be injected (vmm.c:vm_interrupt_hostcpu(

Re: Xen (and others Hypervisors) how do they handle IPIs?

2013-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/26/13 5:50 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On 26/09/13 03:48, Julian Elischer wrote: On 9/25/13 11:04 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On 25/09/13 16:56, Julian Elischer wrote: If CPUs are mapped around, how are IPIs handled? I assume they must be emulated? I've noticed that under Xen (on

Re: RFC: Changes to handbook on virtualization

2013-10-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/11/13 5:59 AM, Dee Nixon wrote: A few weeks ago we volunteered to add some new material, primarily about bhyve, to the section on virtualiation in the FreeBSD handbook. You can see our nearly-final draft (pending any comments from the list, and pending the repair of VirtualBox so it can w

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-10-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/11/13 9:56 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On 11/10/13 11:42, Eggert, Lars wrote: Hi, On May 13, 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide feedback. any

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