From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: KVM performance Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:08:49 +0200 Message-ID: <49254541.3060903@redhat.com> References: <491DC50F.6080202@bayarea.net> <49202D9A.8050408@redhat.com> <492099C2.9050502@bayarea.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Ahern" To: Randy Broman Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:39675 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753149AbYKTLIl (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:08:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <492099C2.9050502@bayarea.net> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Randy Broman wrote: > After I submitted the initial question, I downloaded the latest kernel > 2.6.27.6, and compiled > with the following options, some of which are new since my previous > kernel 2.6.24-21. > > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST=y > CONFIG_XEN_SAVE_RESTORE=y > CONFIG_VMI=y > CONFIG_KVM_CLOCK=y > CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y > # CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST is not set > CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y > > Using my existing kvm-62 and the following invocation: > > $ aoss kvm -m 1024 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot c -net > nic,macaddr=00:d0:13:b0:2d:32,model=rtl8139 -net tap -soundhw all > -localtime /home/rbroman/windows.img > and I've checked ~/kvm-79/kvm --help for the new syntax, but I can't > figure out how to invoke the > remaining options. One of the missing options seems to be the tap > network, and the kvm-79 WinXP > guest now has no networking. These options have not changed. Do you get any error messages? Oh, and don't use the kvm python script, I'll remove it from the repository. > > I also tried the "-vga vmware" option below, as well as -vga=vmware > and various other permutations, > and I can't get that to work either. > What error message do you get? -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.