Re: 5x slower guest disk performance with virtio disk

2011-12-15 Thread Stefan Pietsch
* Brian J. Murrell [2011-12-15 15:28]: > I have a CentOS 6 host system running a CentOS 6 KVM guest and the > guest seems to get about 5x slower disk throughput than the host: > > host $ sudo dd of=/dev/datavol/disk1 if=/dev/zero bs=1M oflag=direct > count=5 > 5+0 records in > 5+0 re

Re: Virtio network performance on Debian

2012-04-16 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 12.04.2012 09:42, Hans-Kristian Bakke wrote: > Hi > > For some reason I am not able to get good network performance using > virtio/vhost-net on Debian KVM host (perhaps also valid for Ubuntu > hosts then). > Disc IO is very good and the guests feels snappy so it doesn't seem > like there is som

KVM: High CPU load with audio enabled

2010-11-08 Thread Stefan Pietsch
Hi, I'm running a Windows XP guest in KVM. After enabling the audio support (-soundhw es1370) the CPU load of the KVM process in the host system goes up to 100%. Tested with: qemu-kvm-0.13.0 Debian 0.13.0+dfsg-1 KVM start command: kvm -m 512 -hda xp.img -soundhw es1370 Did you experience simil

Re: KVM: High CPU load with audio enabled

2010-11-10 Thread Stefan Pietsch
* Michael Tokarev [2010-11-09 15:41]: > Ok. This is wrong: neither of the two changes went into any > stable release. Hence we've bugs which are long fixed but > no one knows about this. As usual for qemu[-kvm] development. I can reproduce the problem with the Debian release 0.12.5+dfsg-4. So

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-05-29 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 19.05.2013 14:32, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:00:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Dear KVM maintainers, it appears that there is a gap in x86 emulation, >> at least on a 32-bit host. Stefan found this when running GRML, a live >> distribution which can be downloaded from

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-05 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 19.05.2013 14:32, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:00:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Dear KVM maintainers, it appears that there is a gap in x86 emulation, >> at least on a 32-bit host. Stefan found this when running GRML, a live >> distribution which can be downloaded from

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-05 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 05.06.2013 14:10, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:57:25PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 19.05.2013 14:32, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:00:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>>> Dear KVM maintainers, it appears that t

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-06 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 06.06.2013 08:42, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:51:19PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 05.06.2013 14:10, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:57:25PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>> On 19.05.2013 14:32, Gleb Natapov wrote: &g

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-06 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 06.06.2013 13:40, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:35:13PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> I had no success with the Debian kernel 3.10~rc4-1~exp1 (3.10-rc4-686-pae). >> >> The machine hangs after "Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs"

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-13 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 09.06.2013 11:43, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:10:39PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 06.06.2013 13:40, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:35:13PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> >>>> I had no success with the Debian

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-13 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 13.06.2013 15:42, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 13/06/2013 07:57, Stefan Pietsch ha scritto: >> git bisect tells me: >> 79fd50c67f91136add9726fb7719b57a66c6f763 is the first bad commit > > This is an s390 commit, so the bisect somehow went wrong. Can you > confirm that 3

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-15 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 13.06.2013 16:59, Stefan Pietsch wrote: > On 13.06.2013 15:42, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Il 13/06/2013 07:57, Stefan Pietsch ha scritto: >>> git bisect tells me: >>> 79fd50c67f91136add9726fb7719b57a66c6f763 is the first bad commit >> >> This is an s390 c

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-18 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 17.06.2013 18:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 16/06/2013 02:25, Stefan Pietsch ha scritto: >> Bisecting leads to >> >> git bisect bad 378a8b099fc207ddcb91b19a8c1457667e0af398 >> git bisect good 007a3b547512d69f67ceb9641796d64552bd337e >> git bisect good 1f3141e

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-19 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 19.06.2013 15:41, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 02:25:04AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> >> first bad commit: [25391454e73e3156202264eb3c473825afe4bc94] >> KVM: VMX: don't clobber segment AR of unusable segments. >> >> >&

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-20 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 19.06.2013 16:38, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:12:04PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 19.06.2013 15:41, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 02:25:04AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>> >>>> first bad commit: [25391454

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-23 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 23.06.2013 09:51, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:01:49PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>> Can you provide the output of 25391454e73e3156202264eb3c473825afe4bc94 >>> and emulate_invalid_guest_state=0. Also run "x/20i $pc-20" in

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-24 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 23.06.2013 19:36, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 06:51:30PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 23.06.2013 09:51, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:01:49PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>>> Can you provide the output of 2539145

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-24 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 24.06.2013 13:47, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 01:43:26PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 23.06.2013 19:36, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 06:51:30PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>> On 23.06.2013 09:51, Gleb Natapov wrote: &g

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-24 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 24.06.2013 14:30, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 01:59:34PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> As soon as I remove "kvmvapic.bin" the virtual machine boots with >> qemu-kvm 1.5.0. I just verified this with Linux kernel 3.10.0-rc5. >> &qu

Re: Bug#707257: linux-image-3.8-1-686-pae: KVM crashes with "entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021"

2013-06-27 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 26.06.2013 12:47, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:42:57PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 24.06.2013 14:30, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 01:59:34PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>> As soon as I remove "kvmvapic.

kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

2013-07-26 Thread Stefan Pietsch
Hi all, starting a virtual machine (Debian sid) with KVM on my host running kernel 3.10.1 (Debian 3.10-1-686-pae) produces these messages: [ 765.522920] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0. [ 765.522927] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? [ 765.522930] Dazed and co

Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

2013-07-29 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 26.07.2013 20:39, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:25:19PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> starting a virtual machine (Debian sid) with KVM on my host running >> kernel 3.10.1 (Debian 3.10-1-686-pae) produces these messages: >>

Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

2013-07-29 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 29.07.2013 11:16, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 26.07.2013 20:39, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:25:19PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>>

Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

2013-07-31 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 30.07.2013 07:31, Gleb Natapov wrote: > What happen if you run perf on your host (perf record -a)? > Do you see same NMI messages? It seems that "perf record -a" triggers some delayed NMI messages. They appear about 20 or 30 minutes after the command. This seems strange. -- To unsubscribe fro

Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

2013-08-01 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 31.07.2013 11:20, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:10:01AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 30.07.2013 07:31, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> >>> What happen if you run perf on your host (perf record -a)? >>> Do you see same NMI messages? >> >

Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

2013-08-09 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 04.08.2013 14:44, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 08:24:38AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 31.07.2013 11:20, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:10:01AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>> On 30.07.2013 07:31, Gleb Natapov wrote: >

Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 25.08.2013 13:45, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:14:13PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >> On 04.08.2013 14:44, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 08:24:38AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote: >>>> On 31.07.2013 11:20, Gleb Natapov wrote: &g

Installation of Windows 8 hangs with KVM

2013-01-04 Thread Stefan Pietsch
Hi all, when I run KVM with this command the Windows 8 installation stops with error code 0x005D: kvm -m 1024 -hda win8.img -cdrom windows_8_x86.iso After adding the option "-cpu host" the installation proceeds to a black screen and hangs. With Virtualbox the installation succeeds. The host

Re: Installation of Windows 8 hangs with KVM

2013-01-06 Thread Stefan Pietsch
* Gleb Natapov [2013-01-06 11:11]: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:58:33PM +0100, Stefan Pietsch wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > when I run KVM with this command the Windows 8 installation stops with > > error code 0x005D: > > kvm -m 1024 -hda win8.img -cdrom window

Re: Installation of Windows 8 hangs with KVM

2013-01-08 Thread Stefan Pietsch
* Ren, Yongjie [2013-01-07 09:38]: > you met issue only for 32bit Win8 (not 64 bit Win8), right? > I think it's the same issue as the below bug I reported. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1007269 > You can try with '-cpu coreduo' or '-cpu core2duo' in qemu-kvm command line. Yes, I'm talki