Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2019-01-15 Thread Paige Thompson
Libvirt also does a good job in general of adding extra configuration sometimes which can be good and bad sometimes if it does a bad job or if you forget to check. Its helpful to find new tools sometimes like dpc latency checker (thanks again bronek that helped me a lot) also something to give

Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2019-01-04 Thread Zoltán Kővágó
On 2019-01-01 10:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-12-31 at 23:01 +0100, Kővágó Zoltán wrote: >> On 2018-12-29 16:31, Alex Williamson wrote: >>> Use virtual machine manager again to create a Q35 VM and re-use your >>> disk image. Note that this is the same as moving your disk from one

Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2019-01-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2018-12-30 at 13:13 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2018-12-29 at 08:31 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:51:57 + > > "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > > > > > I'm interested in switching to Q35 but it isn't entirely trivial. > > > Simply editing the ma

Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2019-01-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-12-31 at 23:01 +0100, Kővágó Zoltán wrote: > On 2018-12-29 16:31, Alex Williamson wrote: > > Use virtual machine manager again to create a Q35 VM and re-use your > > disk image. Note that this is the same as moving your disk from one > > machine to another with potentially different d

Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2018-12-31 Thread Kővágó Zoltán
On 2018-12-29 16:31, Alex Williamson wrote: > Use virtual machine manager again to create a Q35 VM and re-use your > disk image. Note that this is the same as moving your disk from one > machine to another with potentially different disk and network > controllers. If you're using virtio for both,

Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2018-12-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2018-12-30 at 13:13 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I immediately ran into this bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644848 > > The suggested fix is to delete .osxsave from the XML, but there is no > such string in the file. As a test I tried creating a small VM from

Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2018-12-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2018-12-29 at 08:31 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:51:57 + > "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > > > I'm interested in switching to Q35 but it isn't entirely trivial. > > Simply editing the machine-type line in the XML file doesn't do it: > > > > If I change: > >

Re: [vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2018-12-29 Thread Alex Williamson
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:51:57 + "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > I'm interested in switching to Q35 but it isn't entirely trivial. > Simply editing the machine-type line in the XML file doesn't do it: > > If I change: > >hvm > > to: > >hvm > > I get: > >Error: unsupported confi

[vfio-users] Switching to Q35

2018-12-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I'm interested in switching to Q35 but it isn't entirely trivial. Simply editing the machine-type line in the XML file doesn't do it: If I change: hvm to: hvm I get: Error: unsupported configuration: IDE controllers are unsupported for this QEMU binary or machine type I created the