Re: [PATCH] Make client behavior configurable: drop_caches

2009-11-10 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:28 -0800, John Admanski wrote: > Will this code actually work on a standalone client job? I'm not sure > we've ever used global_config stuff outside of the server (despite the > fact that the code lives in the common_lib). Whoops, I just forgot that global_config.ini is a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] megaraid_sas HBA emulation

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Brook
> But I certainly do _not_ want to update the SCSI disk > emulation, as this is really quite tied to the SCSI parallel > interface used by the old lsi53c895a.c. This is completely untrue. scsi-disk.c contains no transport-specific code. It is deliberately designed to be independent of both the tr

Re: [Qemu-devel] net packet storms with multiple NICs

2009-11-10 Thread Anthony Liguori
Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 20:25 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: I've two questions: o what's the intended usage of all-vlan-equal case, when kvm (or qemu) reflects packets from one interface to another? It's what bridge in linux is for, I think. I don't think i

Re: [Qemu-devel] net packet storms with multiple NICs

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Brook
> I immediately reproduced the problem locally. It turns out that > kvm reflects packets coming from one guest NIC on another guest > NIC, and since both are connected to the same bridge we're getting > endless packet storm. To a level when kvm process becomes 100% > busy and does not respond to

Re: [PATCH] Make client behavior configurable: drop_caches

2009-11-10 Thread John Admanski
Will this code actually work on a standalone client job? I'm not sure we've ever used global_config stuff outside of the server (despite the fact that the code lives in the common_lib). -- John On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > Right now autotest will drop caches

Re: [Autotest] [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 1/6] KVM test: disable password prompt on resume for Windows guests

2009-11-10 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Patchset applied, thanks! On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Michael Goldish wrote: > Add a command to setuprss.bat that disables the password prompt on resuming > from hibernation. > Note that for this change to take effect the local winutils.iso should be > updated as well. > > Signed-off-by: Mic

Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Kiszka
Asdo wrote: > Great, thanks for your reply! > > All clear, except one thing, pls see ---> > > Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> >>> 2.6.31.5 >>> 2.6.30 >>> 2.6.30.1 >>> 2.6.30-rc8 >>> 2.6.30-rc6 >>> >>> I don't undestand why they are numbered like the kernel, that's >>> strange... More specifically, thi

Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities

2009-11-10 Thread Asdo
Great, thanks for your reply! All clear, except one thing, pls see ---> Michael Tokarev wrote: 2.6.31.5 2.6.30 2.6.30.1 2.6.30-rc8 2.6.30-rc6 I don't undestand why they are numbered like the kernel, that's strange... More specifically, this is the question: If I have a kernel version N, wha

Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Tokarev
Asdo wrote: Thanks for your reply, sorry to get you angry, but there are still things which are not clear to me. Well, today wasn't my best day. You're right the documentation on the matter is nearly non-existing. [] 3) Everyone here mentions to upgrade the userspace part only. That sounds s

Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities

2009-11-10 Thread Asdo
Thanks for your reply, sorry to get you angry, but there are still things which are not clear to me. Please note that if you try to search "kvm kvm-kmod kvm-qemu" with google you will discover that basically nothing comes out telling you the differences between the three. Now searching within

buildbot failure in qemu-kvm on default_i386_out_of_tree

2009-11-10 Thread qemu-kvm
The Buildbot has detected a new failure of default_i386_out_of_tree on qemu-kvm. Full details are available at: http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu-kvm/builders/default_i386_out_of_tree/builds/85 Buildbot URL: http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu-kvm/ Buildslave for this Build: b1_qemu_kvm_2 Buil

buildbot failure in qemu-kvm on default_x86_64_out_of_tree

2009-11-10 Thread qemu-kvm
The Buildbot has detected a new failure of default_x86_64_out_of_tree on qemu-kvm. Full details are available at: http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu-kvm/builders/default_x86_64_out_of_tree/builds/87 Buildbot URL: http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu-kvm/ Buildslave for this Build: b1_qemu_kvm_1

Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Kiszka
Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/10/2009 03:22 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> Since we have very few variable-size states, and their number is >>> unlikely to increase, ad-hoc handling should be sufficient. >>> >> Regarding CPU states, there is actually only the MSR interface. >> >> > > cpuid intern

Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL

2009-11-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/10/2009 03:22 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Since we have very few variable-size states, and their number is unlikely to increase, ad-hoc handling should be sufficient. Regarding CPU states, there is actually only the MSR interface. cpuid internal states too. So the new roadmap sh

Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Kiszka
Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/10/2009 02:03 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> I'm having some second thoughts about this. >>> >>> What does the new API buy us? Instead of declaring two new ioctls for >>> new/fixed substates, we only have to declare one. We still have the >>> capability check. We still have

Re: [PATCH] Seperate smp from extra_params and add into default VM params

2009-11-10 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
I am OK with it, applied, thanks! On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Yolkfull Chow wrote: > We may need leave smp as standalone parameter of VM. Reasons I can proposal: >  1) memory is a standalone parameter, so is smp >  2) smp parameter is needed in some test case, say VM params_verify > > > Signe

Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL

2009-11-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/10/2009 02:03 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: I'm having some second thoughts about this. What does the new API buy us? Instead of declaring two new ioctls for new/fixed substates, we only have to declare one. We still have the capability check. We still have to declare a structure. Righ

Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Tokarev
Asdo wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: I recommend to use distro-provided modules (or kernel.org kernels within their support period) for production use. This ensures you get security and stability fixes. kvm-89 will fix these issues, but as it's a development snapshot, may introduce new issues. Th

Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Kiszka
Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/02/2009 06:20 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Add a new IOCTL pair to retrieve or set the VCPU state in one chunk. >> More precisely, the IOCTL is able to process a list of substates to be >> read or written. This list is easily extensible without breaking the >> existing ABI, th

Re: [PATCHv9 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-11-10 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:49:09PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > One fix: > > vhost: fix TUN=m VHOST_NET=y > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `get_tun_socket': > net.c:(.text+0x15436e): undefined reference to `tun_get_socket' > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell > --- > drivers/vhost/

Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities

2009-11-10 Thread Asdo
Avi Kivity wrote: I recommend to use distro-provided modules (or kernel.org kernels within their support period) for production use. This ensures you get security and stability fixes. kvm-89 will fix these issues, but as it's a development snapshot, may introduce new issues. This is interes

Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h

2009-11-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/02/2009 06:20 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Obviously, people tend to extend this header at the bottom - more or less blindly. Ensure that deprecated stuff gets its own corner again by moving things to the top. Also add some comments and reindent IOCTLs to make them more readable and reduce the ris

Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL

2009-11-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/02/2009 06:20 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Add a new IOCTL pair to retrieve or set the VCPU state in one chunk. More precisely, the IOCTL is able to process a list of substates to be read or written. This list is easily extensible without breaking the existing ABI, thus we will no longer have to a

Re: Doubt on KVM-88 vulnerabilities

2009-11-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/08/2009 08:42 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! I'm using KVM-88 compiled by myself from the source code provided by the official site of the project. Is this version of KVM vulnerable to the mentioned thing in the DSA-1907-1 [1]? Yes. In such case, there is some published patch that

[patch] add some unlocks on error paths irq_comm.c

2009-11-10 Thread Dan Carpenter
There were a couple unlocks missing. They were found by smatch static checker. Compile tested. regards, dan carpenter Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- orig/virt/kvm/irq_comm.c2009-11-08 19:00:50.0 +0200 +++ devel/virt/kvm/irq_comm.c 2009-11-08 19:04:45.0 +0200 @@ -209,6

Re: kvm88 compile errors with 2.6.31.1

2009-11-10 Thread Benjamin Budts
Hi all, a late response of my part, but I got it partially working under slackware 13.0 with the qemu-kvm-0.11.0.tar.gz (it compiles now without errors.) When I start my virtual machine in *windowed mode* it boots fine,It installs the OS I want but everything is black around the windowed