Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api

2012-02-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > On 02/07/2012 07:18 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >On 02/07/2012 02:51 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>On 02/07/2012 06:40 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>>On 02/07/2012 02:28 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > >It's a potential source of exploits > >(

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add nvram to default boot device list

2012-10-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Alexander Graf (ag...@suse.de) wrote: > On 12.10.2012, at 02:28, David Gibson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 02:03:00AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> On 12.10.2012, at 00:59, David Gibson wrote: > >>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 07:34:42AM +0530, Avik Sil wrote: > This patch adds nvram s

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU Code Audit Team

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Corey Bryant (cor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > Count me in for step 2. A good approach may be to run a static > analysis tool against the code, followed by a manual scan of the > code for common vulnerabilities that static analysis can't find. Good idea. Folks are already running things lik

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU Code Audit Team

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (aligu...@us.ibm.com) wrote: > 2) Two people walk through a particular piece of code and > independently flag anything that looks like a potential security > issue. Auditing is always helpful, but won't ever get full coverage. qtest + fuzz is another great way to identify proble

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU was not selected for Google Summer of Code this year

2012-03-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Natalia Portillo (clau...@claunia.com) wrote: > QEMU hosted on Haiku would be interesting. The fun of Haiku especially when it is hosting QEMU

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for June 7

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for June 21

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Wright
concerns about backwards compat - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689672 - f13 host can no longer run f14 guest after qemu update - this particular bug is older f13 which includes patched qemu... - could be useful to fingerprint the guest (lspci, etc) - sounds simple enough, need so

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] vhost: fix double free on device stop

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Wright
-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Chris Wright thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 807893] Re: qemu privilege escalation

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Wright
This bug is being tracked as CVE-2011-2527 ** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi- bin/cvename.cgi?name=2011-2527 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/807893 Title: qemu privilege esc

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 807893] Re: qemu privilege escalation

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Wright
Requesting CVE. Tools like libvirt deprivilege themselves before launching qemu as an unprivileged user (no use of -runas), so aren't vulnerable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/807893

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 807893] Re: [PATCH] os-posix: set groups properly for -runas

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Stefan Hajnoczi (stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > @@ -199,6 +200,11 @@ static void change_process_uid(void) > fprintf(stderr, "Failed to setgid(%d)\n", user_pwd->pw_gid); > exit(1); > } > +if (initgroups(user_pwd->pw_name, user_pwd->pw_gid) < 0) { >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] os-posix: set groups properly for -runas

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@sous-sol.org) wrote: > * Stefan Hajnoczi (stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > > @@ -199,6 +200,11 @@ static void change_process_uid(void) > > fprintf(stderr, "Failed to setgid(%d)\n", user_pwd->pw_gid); > > exit(

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Exporting Guest RAM information for NUMA binding

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Alexander Graf (ag...@suse.de) wrote: > On 29.10.2011, at 20:45, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > As guests become NUMA aware, it becomes important for the guests to > > have correct NUMA policies when they run on NUMA aware hosts. > > Currently limited support for NUMA binding is available via libvirt >

Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings

2011-08-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Aaron Fabbri (aafab...@cisco.com) wrote: > On 8/26/11 7:07 AM, "Alexander Graf" wrote: > > Forget the KVM case for a moment and think of a user space device driver. I > > as > > a user am not root. But I as a user when having access to /dev/vfioX want to > > be able to access the device and man

Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings

2011-08-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Aaron Fabbri (aafab...@cisco.com) wrote: > On 8/26/11 12:35 PM, "Chris Wright" wrote: > > * Aaron Fabbri (aafab...@cisco.com) wrote: > >> Each process will open vfio devices on the fly, and they need to be able to > >> share IOMMU resources. > > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Memory API code review

2011-09-14 Thread Chris Wright
* Avi Kivity (a...@redhat.com) wrote: > I would like to carry out an online code review of the memory API so that > more people are familiar with the internals, and perhaps even to catch some > bugs or deficiency. I'd like to use the next kvm conference call slot for > this (Tuesday 1400 UTC) sinc

[Qemu-devel] Virtualization DevRoom at FOSDEM 2013

2012-11-16 Thread Chris Wright
Following on the heels of a successful KVM Forum and oVirt Workshop, FOSDEM will be hosting a Virtualization DevRoom in February. If you've been to FOSDEM before, you know this is about developers and code, not products. Presentation proposals are due by December 16th 2012. The full details are

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vfio: Add an ioctl to reset the device

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Randy Dunlap (rdun...@xenotime.net) wrote: > I can't find include/linux/vfio.h in linux-next or mainline git, but > ioctls need to be documented in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt It is in the full patchset: https://github.com/pugs/vfio-linux-2.6

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vfio: Add an ioctl to reset the device

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > When using VFIO to assign a device to a guest, we want to make sure > the device is quiesced on VM reset to stop all DMA within the guest > mapped memory. Add an ioctl which just calls pci_reset_function() > and returns whether it succeeds.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vfio: Add an ioctl to reset the device

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:07 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > When using VFIO to assign a device to a guest, we want to make sure > > > the device is quies

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vfio: Add an ioctl to reset the device

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:26 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:07 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > > > * Alex Williamson (ale

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Apr 26

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Wright
Tools for resource accounting the virtual machines. - Luis Castro was not on the call Status of glib tree - next steps? - full conversion done in tree - still targeting 0.15 status of QCFG - code generator rewritten to be more generic and useful - merge core infrastructure first - to not block

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Exporting Guest RAM information for NUMA binding

2011-11-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijls...@chello.nl) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 21:30 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > > > In the original post of this mail thread, I proposed a way to export > > guest RAM ranges (Guest Physical Address-GPA) and their corresponding host > > host virtual mappings (Host Vir

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Call Agenda for 12/6 (Tuesday) @ 10am US/Eastern

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (aligu...@us.ibm.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose that we discuss guest agent convergence in our next KVM > call. I've CC'd folks from oVirt and libvirt to join the discussion. > > I think we should probably attempt to have some structure to the discussion. > I would s

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Exporting Guest RAM information for NUMA binding

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijls...@chello.nl) wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 21:52 +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > > > Also, if at all topology changes due to migration or host kernel decisions, > > we can make use of something like VPHN (virtual processor home node) > > capability on Power systems t

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Call Agenda for 12/6 (Tuesday) @ 10am US/Eastern

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: > * Anthony Liguori (aligu...@us.ibm.com) wrote: > > 1. A short introduction to each of the guest agents, what guests they > > support, and what verbs they support. > > I think we did this once before w/ Matahari. Can we please capt

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU hacking session/day at KVM Forum 2012?

2012-07-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (aligu...@us.ibm.com) wrote: > Peter Maydell writes: > > Last year at KVM Forum, in addition to the scheduled talks we also > > had an informal hacking session on one of the following days, since > > we were colocated with LinuxCon NA and most people were still around > > afterwa

[Qemu-devel] KVM Forum 2012 Call For Participation

2012-08-02 Thread Chris Wright
For some reason I'm not seeing this on the qemu list, so here's a fwd - Forwarded message from KVM Forum 2012 Program Committee - Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:31:45 -0700 From: KVM Forum 2012 Program Committee To: k...@vger.kernel.org, libvir-l...@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,

[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Oct 26

2010-10-25 Thread Chris Wright
* Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. Guest agents

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 26

2010-10-26 Thread Chris Wright
Guest Agents - need to get to guest userspace for many actions - virtio for userspace - host backend needs to terminate in QEMU - portable across guest OS's - virt-agent - bi-directional RPC (XML-RPC just since it's easy) - cmd: shutdown, reboot, dmesg, execute command, read/write file - qu

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm build issue on RHEL5.1

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Wright
* Hidetoshi Seto (seto.hideto...@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote: > (2010/10/14 4:11), Blue Swirl wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Hidetoshi Seto > > wrote: > >> (Add CC to k...@vger) > >> > >> (2010/10/12 10:52), Hao, Xudong wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> Currently qemu-kvm build fail on RHEL5 with gcc

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Nov 9

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Wright
linux plumbers - qemu talks, including xen folks efforts to get patches upstream - considering virtio - considering seabios - even some xenner interest - seabios presentation - uefi - still needs CSM support (lot of work) to be the only BIOS - otherwise need legacy BIOS and UEFI and users

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio-9p: fix build on !CONFIG_UTIMENSAT v2

2010-11-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Hidetoshi Seto (seto.hideto...@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote: > +/* > + * Fallback: use utimes() instead of utimensat(). > + * See commit 74bc02b2d2272dc88fb98d43e631eb154717f517 for known problem. > + */ > +struct timeval tv[2]; > +int i; > + > +for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { > +

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3] virtio-9p: fix build on !CONFIG_UTIMENSAT

2010-11-14 Thread Chris Wright
tils.c > V2: > - Introduce qemu_utimensat() > > Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Looks good to me (no strong opinion on the cutils vs oslib-posix that Jes mentioned). Acked-by: Chris Wright

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Nov 16

2010-11-15 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Nov 23

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. usb-ccid

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: introduce cpu_start/cpu_stop commands

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (aligu...@us.ibm.com) wrote: > qemu-kvm vcpu threads don't response to SIGSTOP/SIGCONT. Instead of teaching > them to respond to these signals, introduce monitor commands that stop and > start > individual vcpus. In the past SIGSTOP has introduced time skew. Have you verified

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: introduce cpu_start/cpu_stop commands

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (aligu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > On 11/22/2010 05:04 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > >* Anthony Liguori (aligu...@us.ibm.com) wrote: > >>qemu-kvm vcpu threads don't response to SIGSTOP/SIGCONT. Instead of > >>teaching > >>them to re

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Nov 23

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Wright
qcow2 performance roadmap - What can be done to achieve near-raw image format performance? - some discussion points from Kevin on list http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-11/msg02126.html - please follow up on the list - some perf numbers (latest upstream qcow2 compared wit

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Nov 30

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Wright
2011 KVM Conference - together with LF event like LinuxCon Vancouver BC (Aug), KS Prague (Nov) - wider audience - include qemu (tcg) - include libvirt - include xen 0.14.0 release plan - could push things out, mainly want to keep on track for infrastructure changes (irc channel migration, g

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2)

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijls...@chello.nl) wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:42 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > > Not if yield() remembers what timeslice was given up and adds that back when > > thread is finally ready to run. Figure below illustrates this idea: > > > > > > A0/4C0/

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2)

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijls...@chello.nl) wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:17 -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > > Directed yield and fairness don't mix well either. You can end up > > feeding the other tasks more time than you'll ever get back. > > If the directed yie

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Dec 7

2010-12-06 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Dec 7

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Jes Sorensen (jes.soren...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 12/07/10 00:51, Chris Wright wrote: > > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. > > > > thanks, > > -chris > > > > No agenda, no replies > > Call canceled I presume? Indeed, next week, then pick up next year...

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Dec 14

2010-12-13 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Dec 14

2010-12-14 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. No agenda, today's call is cancelled.

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Dec 14

2010-12-14 Thread Chris Wright
* Jes Sorensen (jes.soren...@redhat.com) wrote: > Any chance you could fix your cronjob to send out the CFA a day earlier? > 15 hrs before is a bit short notice. Sure.

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Dec 21

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Dec 21

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. No agenda, today's call is cancelled. Also, given people's holiday and vacation schedules, next week's call is cancelled. Talk again after the New Year. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Jan 11

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Wright
KVM Forum 2011 - expand the scope? yes, continue up the stack - how long? 2 days (maybe 2 1/2 - 3 space permitting) - where? Vancouver with LinuxCon Spice guest agent: - virt agent, matahari, spice agent...what is in spice agent? - spice char device - mouse, copy 'n paste, screen resolution ch

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Jan 18

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Jan 18

2011-01-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. No agenda, this week's call is cancelled. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Jan 25

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for August 31

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Wright
QMP/QPI - declare what's in 0.13 supported - means reasonable effort to avoid breaking something (deprecation is possible) - things that are left, shallow patch or human monitor conversion - how to move forward? - need to improve interfaces (no argument there) - internal vs. external inte

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Make tx_timer timeout configurable

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > diff --git a/hw/virtio-net.c b/hw/virtio-net.c > index 075f72d..9ef29f0 100644 > --- a/hw/virtio-net.c > +++ b/hw/virtio-net.c > @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ typedef struct VirtIONet > VirtQueue *ctrl_vq; > NICState *nic; > QEMUTimer *tx_t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Make tx_timer timeout configurable

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > diff --git a/hw/virtio-net.c b/hw/virtio-net.c > > > index 075f72d..9ef29f0 100644 > > &g

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Sept 7

2010-09-07 Thread Chris Wright
0.13 schedule - RSN - rc1 uploaded, tagged in git (and tag should actually be there now) - announcement once it propagates - 0.13.0 should be 1 week after rc1 announcement - please check rc1 for any missing critical patches qed - concession that qcow2 is complicated and hard to get right - it's mu

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pci: fix pci_resource_alignment prototype

2010-09-07 Thread Chris Wright
es) Yes, that's my mistake. Thanks for debugging the issue Cam. This fixes the prototype for both pci_resource_alignment() and pci_sriov_resource_alignment(). Patch started as debugging effort from Cam Macdonell. Cc: Cam Macdonell Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Jesse Barnes [chrisw: add iov b

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Sept 14

2010-09-13 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Sept 14

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Wright
0.13 - if all goes well...tomorrow stable tree - please look at -stable to see what is missing (bugfixes) - esp. regressions from 0.12 - looking for dedicated stable maintainer/release manager - pick this discussion up next week qed/qcow2 - increase concurrency, performance - threading vs sta

[Qemu-devel] Re: ACPI error when mapping a 2GB BAR w/ 4GB of RAM

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Cam Macdonell (c...@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote: > After fixing the resource_size_t return value with > pci_resource_alignment, I see one other strange behaviour only when > using 4GB of RAM and a 2GB BAR. I haven't found any other combination > of RAM/BAR size that triggers this bug. I am using 2.6.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: ACPI error when mapping a 2GB BAR w/ 4GB of RAM

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Cam Macdonell (c...@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > >> * Cam Macdonell (c...@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote: > >>> After fixing the resource_size_t return value with &

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Sept 21

2010-09-20 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Sept 21

2010-09-21 Thread Chris Wright
Nested VMX - looking for forward progress and better collaboration between the Intel and IBM teams - needs more review (not a new issue) - use cases - work todo - merge baseline patch - looks pretty good - review is finding mostly small things at this point - need some correctness v

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Sept 28

2010-09-27 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Oct 5

2010-10-04 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Oct 5

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. No agenda, call cancelled. thanks, -chris

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Wright
* Andreas Färber (andreas.faer...@web.de) wrote: > Am 04.10.2010 um 20:54 schrieb Marcelo Tosatti: > > I assume something went wrong with your cover letter here. It > would've been nice to see MCE spelled out or summarized for those of > us that don't speak x86. It would help. The acronym is Mac

[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Oct 19

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: > > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. - 0.13.X -stable handoff - 0.14 planning - threadlet work - virtfs proposals

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Wright
0.13.X -stable - Anthony will send note to qemu-devel on this - move 0.13.X -stable to a separate tree - driven independently of main qemu tree - challenge is always in the porting and testing of backported fixes - looking for volunteers 0.14 - would like to do this before end of the year - 0.13 f

[Qemu-devel] KVM Forum 2010: videos online [was Re: KVM Forum 2010: presentations online]

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: > We were also able to video the speakers, and will send a note when the > videos are available. > (and thanks again to Andrew Cathrow for making this happen) I don't think a note went out yet. The videos are available as well. thanks, -chris

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > So there's no doubt in my mind that if you need a way to inventory > physical and virtual systems, something like Matahari becomes a very > appealing option to do that. > > But that's not the problem space I'm trying to tackle. > > An example of

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > The first step is just identifying what interfaces we need in a > guest agent. So far, I think we can get away with a very small > number of interfaces (mainly read/write files, execute command). Could you elaborate here? I can't imagine you mea

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > On 10/22/2010 12:29 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > >* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > >>The first step is just identifying what interfaces we need in a > >>guest agent. So far, I think we can get away with

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

2010-10-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > On 10/22/2010 01:20 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > >I'm not sure about that. That same new shiny Fedora 21 QEMU has no idea > >what the right OS specific command to run in guest is. Granted, it's > >not likely that &q

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for May 25

2010-05-24 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. If we have a lack of agenda items I'll cancel the week's call. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for May 25

2010-05-25 Thread Chris Wright
Generic Asynchronous task offloading - keep vcpu thread from blocking - generic approach is useful, comes down to specifics - e.g. what is done in worker threads, how locking is handled - offload blocking work to worker threads - need to make device model reentrant - can be simple w/ lock per

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for June 1

2010-05-31 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. If we have a lack of agenda items I'll cancel the week's call. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for June 1

2010-06-01 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright (chr...@redhat.com) wrote: > Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. > > If we have a lack of agenda items I'll cancel the week's call. No, agenda, so this week's call is cancelled. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for June 8

2010-06-07 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. If we have a lack of agenda items I'll cancel the week's call. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for June 8

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
Accelerating counters (aka moving PIT to userspace, keeping HPET in userspace) - PIT (in-kernel, userspace, or split) - userspace PIT, too slow - kernel PIT (already seen bugs) - split PIT, not realistic w/out a sane interface (see bugs above) - exit to userspace is a base cost, add MSR save/restor

[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] savevm: Migrate RAM based on name/offset

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > @@ -257,7 +272,7 @@ int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id) > ram_addr_t addr; > int flags; > > -if (version_id != 3) { > +if (version_id < 3) { > return -EINVAL; Should we clamp to 3 and 4? >

[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] qemu_ram_alloc: Remove duplicate code

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > No reason not to call qemu_ram_map() once we have the allocation > and remove duplicate code. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson good cleanup regardless Acked-by: Chris Wright

[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] ram_blocks: Convert to a QLIST

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
} > } > -return block->host + (addr - block->offset); > + > +return NULL; Why not preserve the error message and abort()? In error cases this would now just segfault. Minor nits aside, this too looks like a nice cleanup. Acked-by: Chris Wright

[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] RAMBlock: Add a name field

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > +// XXX check duplicates Yes, definitely. You created a notion of a hierarchical namespace, can this be formalized any more? Currently scattered... > +char name[14]; > +snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "pci:

[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] ram_blocks: Convert to a QLIST

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:26 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > extern int phys_ram_fd; > > > -extern uint8_t *phys_ram_dirty; > > > extern ram_addr_

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/6] RAMBlock: Add a name field

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Wright
* Alex Williamson (alex.william...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 13:18 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > to the identify the device. It should probably do this the same way that we > > identify the saved state for the device. Currently I think this is an > > arbitrary vmstate name/id, bu

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for June 15

2010-06-14 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. If we have a lack of agenda items I'll cancel the week's call. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for June 15

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Wright
Page cache controls - cache is 60% duplicated between host and guest (when not using cache=none) - Balbir posted 2 patches to eliminate this - boot parameter for preferred reclaim - not always have balloon driver - need a boot parameter - perhaps add a balloon cmd to give a hint before a more

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/5] qdev: Create qdev_get_dev_path()

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Paul Brook (p...@codesourcery.com) wrote: > > > I find this argument contradictory. The migration code already needs to > > > check whether a device is compatible before it allows migration. The > > > driver name is not sufficient to ensure compatibility, so I see no > > > benefit in including i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/5] qdev: Create qdev_get_dev_path()

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Paul Brook (p...@codesourcery.com) wrote: > > * Paul Brook (p...@codesourcery.com) wrote: > > > > > I find this argument contradictory. The migration code already needs > > > > > to check whether a device is compatible before it allows migration. > > > > > The driver name is not sufficient to en

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Mar 8

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Wright
QAPI merge plans - should be 100% back compat - qmp moved over - hmp moved over - 1st pass, core infrastructure (includes test framework) - 2nd pass, command conversion - 3rd pass, more controversial bits - adds dependencies: glib and python - some testing based on kvm-unit-test micro-os instance (

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix performance regression in qemu_get_ram_ptr

2011-03-10 Thread Chris Wright
ces the > percentage of CPU time spent in qemu_get_ram_ptr from 6.3% to 2.1% in the > profiling of a full boot. Hopefully this is back on par with before the QLIST switchover. > Signed-off-by: Vincent Palatin Acked-by: Chris Wright > --- > exec.c |7 +-- >

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Mar 15

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Wright
QAPI -- http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI - please review! - Anthony would like to see feedback and plans to commit in a week (assuming agreement and no major issues in review) - some concern about the maintainability of code generation - but still nothing concrete on the list, need to review

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Mar 15

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > On 03/15/2011 09:53 AM, Chris Wright wrote: > > QAPI > >- c library implementation is critical to have unit tests and test > > driven development > > - thread safe? > > - no shared state, no statics. &

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Apr 5

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Wright
KVM Forum - save the date is out, cfp will follow later this week - abstracts due in 6wks, 2wk review period, notifications by end of May Improving process to scale project - Trivial patch bot - Sub-maintainership Trivial patch monkeys^Wteam - small/simple patches posted can fall through the crac

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 1

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Wright
KVM upstream merge: status, plans, coordination - Jan has a git tree, consolidating - qemu-kvm io threading is still an issue - Anthony wants to just merge - concerns with non-x86 arch and merge - concerns with big-bang patch merge and following stability - post 0.14 conversion to glib mainloop

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Feb 8

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

[Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 8

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Wright
Automated builds and testing - found broken 32-bit - luiz suggested running against maintainer trees - daniel gollub offered to take on maintenance - integration with kvm-autotest? - lucas, daniel, stefan... - testing each git commit is probably overkill and too expensive - current autotest r

[Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Feb 15

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Wright
Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. thanks, -chris

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