Re: [Qemu-devel] balloon driver

2006-07-08 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mark Williamson wrote: > > Even if the guest has to swap, the reasoning is that the guest is in a > > much better position to figure out what to swap than if the host were > > forced to. > > Worse, the guest might decide to swap out a page that's already > swapped in by the host, forcing it to be

Re: [Qemu-devel] balloon driver

2006-07-08 Thread Mark Williamson
> It seems the point of the balloon driver is to avoid forcing the host > to swap. For example, suppose I start a new guest OS. I check the > memory usage on the host and everything looks pretty good, maybe 30MB > used. Then suppose I run a recursive grep command in a Linux source > tree on the

Re: [Qemu-devel] balloon driver

2006-07-08 Thread Eric L
On 7/5/06, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:58, Eric L wrote: > I've been playing around with QEMU the past few days and have been > quite impressed. One thing I wondered about: it seems that most of > the other virtualization schemes have some sort of balloon d

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Oliver Gerlich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C. Brown schrieb: > For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ > in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). > > http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ > > Requiring this as a dependency would make it easier to dea

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vl.h Makefile.target hw/pci.c hw/pcnet.c

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Igor Kovalenko wrote: Try this patch - transfers should start to work Hmm, no obvious improvement I'm afraid. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: I CAN'T SEE DEAD PEOPLE I CAN'T SEE DEAD PEOPLE I CAN'T SEE D

Re: [Qemu-devel] add 'monitor' and 'mwait' instruction (update)

2006-07-08 Thread R. Armiento
Hi, Again, thank you for helping out with updated patches, it is much appreciated. Joachim Henke wrote: R. Armiento wrote: So even with your patch applied one should use the 'idle=halt' kernel parameter when booting Linux with -kernel-kqemu on newer processors. [...] To lower the cpu usage,

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:13:52 -0400 "Jim C. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good question. I'm not aware of a way to call Python code from inside > of C. See http://docs.python.org/ext/ext.html However doing this just means yet another language dependency. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-0.8.1 compile errors on x86_64 suse linux 10.1

2006-07-08 Thread Jim C. Brown
The issue is with your linux kernel headers. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:07:57AM -0400, Doctor Bill wrote: > At first I thought the problem was that I was using gcc-4, so I installed > gcc-3.4.6, but I still get the same errors: > > gcc-3.4 -Wall -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -I. -I.. > -I/tmp/qemu-

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:02:31AM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > Jim C. Brown wrote: > >For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ > >in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). > > > >http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ > > > >Requiring this as a dependency would make

[Qemu-devel] qemu-0.8.1 compile errors on x86_64 suse linux 10.1

2006-07-08 Thread Doctor Bill
At first I thought the problem was that I was using gcc-4, so I installed gcc-3.4.6, but I still get the same errors:gcc-3.4 -Wall -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -I. -I.. -I/tmp/qemu-0.8.1/target-i386 -I/tmp/qemu-0.8.1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -I/tmp/qemu-0.8.1/fpu -DH

Re: [Qemu-devel] add 'monitor' and 'mwait' instruction (update)

2006-07-08 Thread Joachim Henke
R. Armiento wrote: However, as you probably know, despite not declaring MONITOR in qemu, kqemu sees MONITOR on the host processor and Linux CPU usage will still be 100%, even with your updated patch. So even with your patch applied one should use the 'idle=halt' kernel parameter when booti

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Joe Lee
Jim C. Brown wrote: For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ Requiring this as a dependency would make it easier to deal with issues such as C++ ABI compatibility by avoiding the

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vl.h Makefile.target hw/pci.c hw/pcnet.c

2006-07-08 Thread Igor Kovalenko
On 7/8/06, Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Paul Jakma wrote:> Hmm, define 'unable to use it'? It seems (on very quick testing) to work in> Solaris.Spoke too soon, ICMP echos and TCP connects work, but it seems tohave problems transferring anything substantial. Try this pat

wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Jim C. Brown
For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ Requiring this as a dependency would make it easier to deal with issues such as C++ ABI compatibility by avoiding the direct use of C++. T

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vl.h Makefile.target hw/pci.c hw/pcnet.c

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Paul Jakma wrote: Hmm, define 'unable to use it'? It seems (on very quick testing) to work in Solaris. Spoke too soon, ICMP echos and TCP connects work, but it seems to have problems transferring anything substantial. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MIPS instruction set configuration

2006-07-08 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Dirk Behme wrote: > Thiemo Seufer wrote: > ... > >I recommend to go for a sufficiently flexible interface first, and then > >introduce it gradually in all appropriate places. A macro like: > > > >MIPS_OPC(ISA, ASE, CPU) > > > >which compares the arguments with the currently selected CPU emulation >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Why do qemumenu.bat show such error mess age?

2006-07-08 Thread Jan Marten Simons
赵刚 wrote: > When I had installed qemu(Host OS: win98),I execute qemumenu.bat. > Unfortunately,qemumenu.bat shows lots of error messages,as follows: > >Bad command or file name > >Bad command or file name > >Invalid directory > >Syntax error > >Syntax error > >Bad command or file name > >Syntax erro

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add 'monitor' and 'mwait' instruction (update)

2006-07-08 Thread R. Armiento
Hi, Joachim Henke wrote: Please use the updated patch attached below. Great work! The patch fixes the kernel panic for me. Thank you. However, as you probably know, despite not declaring MONITOR in qemu, kqemu sees MONITOR on the host processor and Linux CPU usage will still be 100%, even w

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vl.h Makefile.target hw/pci.c hw/pcnet.c

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Fabrice Bellard wrote: Note: I commited the pcnet patch as some people might be interested by it. I was unable to use it with a Knoppix distribution of 2003 so fixes are needed. Hmm, define 'unable to use it'? It seems (on very quick testing) to work in Solaris. regards,