From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:50:59 -0500 Message-ID: <47E01D23.7090702@codemonkey.ws> References: <47DFE2F8.40201@qumranet.com> <47E01A8F.7030407@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM , Avi Kivity To: david ahern Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47E01A8F.7030407@cisco.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org david ahern wrote: > Are you interested in collecting ports of the drivers for various distributions? > What we would like to do, is have the kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git tree autogenerate backports for as far back as we need them. Posting what you needed to do for RHEL4 would be helpful. What would be most helpful is actually submitting a patch to that repo that did the awk/cpp magic to generate the backport. Regards, Anthony Liguori > I have the virtio drivers working with RHEL4. The virtio_net appears to be > working better than e1000 for the workload I am testing with (though I still the > need the noapic boot option). The virtio_blk driver mostly works (the VM > freezes from time and time which gdb and strace seem to clear); its performance > so far lags the scsi driver. > > david > > > Avi Kivity wrote: > >> This is the first release of the kvm drivers disc -- a collection of kvm >> guest drivers packaged as an ISO 9660 CD-ROM for easy installation. >> >> The driver disc can be obtained from the kvm download page, below. >> >> Initial release: >> - kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1 >> - kvm-guest-drivers-windows-1 >> >> http://kvm.qumranet.com >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/