From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: Re: kvm 84 update Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:38:30 -0500 Message-ID: <49E4CA16.2050200@messageone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42673 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305AbZDNRim (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:38:42 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ltmak-0001D0-Dn for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:38:38 +0000 Received: from 143.166.197.6 ([143.166.197.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:38:38 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by 143.166.197.6 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:38:38 +0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Armindo Silva wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Charles Duffy > wrote: >> What problems with the VNC window? > The mouse is always out of sync. That's what -usbdevice tablet is for. >>> Other problem is that all my guest lost their default network config - >>> they all had static ips if i configure them again with the same >>> settings windows warn me about that address being in use by a hidden >>> network device (if i ignore that message it works - at least as far i >>> can tell). >> Perhaps you aren't specifying MAC address on the command line, so they get a >> new one every boot? > > I am launching the machines like this (i am using libvirt): > /usr/bin/kvm -M pc -m 2000 -smp 3 -monitor pty -localtime -boot c > -drive file=/mnt/vm/db/newroot.qcow2,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -drive > file=/mnt/vm/db/databases.qcow2,if=ide,index=1 -drive > file=/mnt/backup/isos/os/w2k3_server_sp2.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 > -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:67:a9:4a,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=7,script=,vlan=0 > -usb -vnc 192.168.0.250:10008 Yup, looks fine. I don't know Windows well enough to know under which circumstances it behaves as you describe, and would suggest diagnosing things starting from that direction. >>> Also now, all of them (including fresh VMs) have a new PCI >>> Device to which i cannot find drivers - i am not using virtio so >>> everything thing should be working, right? >> That's the virtio console. It's on by default, and completely harmless; >> ignore it. > > Even with virtio disabled? There isn't really a concept of globally disabling virtio. Even if you haven't enabled the virtio network or block devices, the virtio console is still enabled by default in kvm-84.