From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Wiki: Add SMP Count to "Guest Support Status" Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 13:38:53 +0300 Message-ID: <481AEF3D.7050104@qumranet.com> References: <1209426183.2929.1.camel@iwt.fiona.local> <4817AE32.1010505@qumranet.com> <1209560815.3034.8.camel@iwt.fiona.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Fabian Deutsch Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1209560815.3034.8.camel@iwt.fiona.local> 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 Fabian Deutsch wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Fabian Deutsch wrote: >> >>> Hey. >>> >>> I've been trying Microsoft Windows 2003 a couple of times. The wiki >>> tells me that "everything" should work okay. It does, when using -smp 1, >>> but gets ugly when using -smp 2 or so. >>> >>> SO might it be useful, to add the column "smp" to the "Guest Support >>> Status" Page in the wiki? >>> >>> >> SMP Windows work best if you have FlexPriority on your hardware. What >> host cpu are you using? >> > > In general I am not able to install Microsoft Windows guests when using > -smp > 1 on the following hardware (and kvm modules+userspace head): > Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210 @ 2.13GHz > > What do you mean "not able"? Does the installer hang? bluescreen? where? I don't think it has flexpriority, but not sure. Will add code so people can find out. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone