Re: KVM PMU virtualization

2010-02-28 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:44:00PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > - A paravirt event driver is more compatible and more transparent in the > long >run: it allows hardware upgrade and upgraded PMU functionality (for Linux) >without having to upgrade the guest OS. Via that a guest OS could e

Re: KVM PMU virtualization

2010-02-28 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:12:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > You mean Windows? > > For heaven's sake, why dont you think like Linus thought 20 years ago. To the > hell with Windows suckiness and lets make sure our stuff works well. Then the > users will come, developers will come, and people w

Re: KVM PMU virtualization

2010-02-28 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:14:08PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:53 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > If you give a full PMU to a guest it's a whole different dimension and > > > quality > > > of information. Literally hundreds of different events about all sorts of > > > as

Re: (qemu)info registers -- Not working for me.

2010-02-28 Thread Jan Kiszka
Zachery Salwasser wrote: > I have been having trouble with reading the extended registers > normally read by kvm_get_sregs() on host kernels ~2.6.32 and higher. > > I am currently running Linux 2.6.32-8, kvm-kmod 2.6.32.8, and qemu 0.12.2. > > I get the following output when I try info registers

[GIT PULL] vhost-net fixes for 2.6.34

2010-02-28 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
David, The following tree, based on net-next-2.6, includes patches fixing issues with vhost-net. Please pull them for 2.6.34. Thanks! The following changes since commit 655ffee284dfcf9a24ac0343f3e5ee6db85b85c5: Jiri Pirko (1): wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr are availa

KVM ivshmem enquiry

2010-02-28 Thread Khaled Ibrahim
Cam,I am interested in the shared memory support you developed on  KVM, but the whole process is not very clear to me. I patched the kernel on the  guest OSs and used the samples codes found in http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg13328.html, but the applications fails in mmap.  I

Re: [GIT PULL] vhost-net fixes for 2.6.34

2010-02-28 Thread David Miller
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:44:40 +0200 > The following changes since commit 655ffee284dfcf9a24ac0343f3e5ee6db85b85c5: > Jiri Pirko (1): > wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/p