grub is stuck in grub_biosdisk_check_int13_extensions() with qemu-kvm

2012-06-26 Thread Alexander Lyakas
Greetings everybody, We are running qemu-kvm-0.14.0 on stock ubuntu-natty 2.6.38-8, and booting stock ubuntu-precise image (3.2.0-25-generic), as a guest. Occasionally, grub gets stuck before it reaches the OS selection menu. After adding prints to grub, we discovered that it gets stuck in grub_bi

PCI-Passthrough: VF ends up with no IRQ assigned on the physical machine

2012-03-26 Thread Alexander Lyakas
Greetings everybody, I am running stock ubuntu-natty 2.6.38-8, with KVM 0.14.0 and libvirt 0.8.8. I am using Intel 82599EB dual-port 10Gb NIC with VFs spawned by each one of the PFs. Those VFs are further assigned to KVM instances with PCI-passthrough using libvirt. Each instance receives 4 VFs (tw

Re: PCI-Passthrough: VF ends up with no IRQ assigned on the physical machine

2012-03-27 Thread Alexander Lyakas
Hi Alex, chances are not too high, but I can try. Should I try version 0.15.1? Will it be compatible with my kernel (2.6.38-8)? Or should I also take 'kvm-kmod' or 'kvm'? Alex. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 18:34 +0200,

Question about host CPU usage/allocation by KVM

2012-04-17 Thread Alexander Lyakas
Greetings everybody, Can anybody please point me to code/documentation regarding the following questions I have: - What does it actually mean using "-smp N" option, in terms of CPU sharing between the host and the guest? - How are guest CPUs mapped to host CPUs (if at all)? - Is it possible to ha

Re: Question about host CPU usage/allocation by KVM

2012-04-18 Thread Alexander Lyakas
Thanks Avi and Stuart! On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Stuart Yoder wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Alexander Lyakas > wrote: >> Greetings everybody, >> >> Can anybody please point me to code/documentation regarding the >> following questions I have:

Re: Question about host CPU usage/allocation by KVM

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Lyakas
Alex. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Stuart Yoder wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Alexander Lyakas > wrote: >> Greetings everybody, >> >> Can anybody please point me to code/documentation regarding the >> following questions I have: >> >> -