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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Neo Jia <neojia@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows guest debugging on KVM/Qemu
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:24:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFB8956.8070308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTineP1tXGgL9iTFilk8F90OmUx8nESgq6rjPbb8w@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/24/2010 11:07 PM, Neo Jia wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am using KVM/Qemu to debug my Windows guest according to KVM wiki
> page (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/GuestDebugging).
> It works for me and also I can only use one Windows guest and bind its
> serial port to a TCP port and run "Virtual Serial Ports Emulator" on
> my Windows dev machine.
>
> The problem is that these kind of connection is really slow. Is there
> any known issue with KVM serial port driver? There is a good
> discussion about the same issue one year ago. Not sure if there is any
> improvement or not after that.
>    

How slow?  Can you measure it (without a debugger, just guest-to-guest 
file transfer)?

slirp used to be ridiculously slow but some recent change made it fairly 
fast.  Probably a missing wakeup, perhaps serial has the same problem.  
In any case I recommend testing with qemu-kvm.git master.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Neo Jia <neojia@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Windows guest debugging on KVM/Qemu
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:24:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFB8956.8070308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTineP1tXGgL9iTFilk8F90OmUx8nESgq6rjPbb8w@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/24/2010 11:07 PM, Neo Jia wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am using KVM/Qemu to debug my Windows guest according to KVM wiki
> page (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/GuestDebugging).
> It works for me and also I can only use one Windows guest and bind its
> serial port to a TCP port and run "Virtual Serial Ports Emulator" on
> my Windows dev machine.
>
> The problem is that these kind of connection is really slow. Is there
> any known issue with KVM serial port driver? There is a good
> discussion about the same issue one year ago. Not sure if there is any
> improvement or not after that.
>    

How slow?  Can you measure it (without a debugger, just guest-to-guest 
file transfer)?

slirp used to be ridiculously slow but some recent change made it fairly 
fast.  Probably a missing wakeup, perhaps serial has the same problem.  
In any case I recommend testing with qemu-kvm.git master.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-25  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-24 20:07 Windows guest debugging on KVM/Qemu Neo Jia
2010-05-24 20:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Neo Jia
2010-05-25  8:24 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-05-25  8:24   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity

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