From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: Virtio and WinXP (disk drivers) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:53:32 +0100 Message-ID: <49A5778C.6030508@wpkg.org> References: <8d3051340902240144h18568e0etf9c0cef5dbdac1e4@mail.gmail.com> <8d3051340902250403p195af7cfyf19c2beccc1333b5@mail.gmail.com> <49A53689.5010501@redhat.com> <8d3051340902250543h3c68e91ev466c75e4452ec27e@mail.gmail.com> <49A56947.3070004@wpkg.org> <8d3051340902250820s26036bb1s7dc1f3b74e3c694b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: dlaor@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?QWxww6FyIFTDtnLDtms=?= Return-path: Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([78.111.66.105]:57508 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759444AbZBYQxJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:53:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8d3051340902250820s26036bb1s7dc1f3b74e3c694b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Alp=C3=A1r T=C3=B6r=C3=B6k schrieb: > 2009/2/25 Tomasz Chmielewski : >> Alp=C3=A1r T=C3=B6r=C3=B6k schrieb: >> >>>> Indeed virtio performs better than e1000. >>>> It should work, please provide host kernel version, kvm version, v= irtio >>>> net >>>> version and >>>> windows guest type. Also the cmdline and monitor command will help= =2E >>> kernel is 2.6.25.16-0.1-default of openSuse 11.0 >>> KVM version is 63-31.1 (also shipped with the distribution) >> This is pretty ancient version - could you try kvm-84 to see if it s= olves >> your problems? >=20 > Yes, just to see if it works is not a problem. But i have many > machines, compiling for each of them would be unpractical, perhaps i > can make a new kernel rpm and install that for the other VMs, with th= e > latest KVM compiled in, if there's no other option i will try that, t= o > see if it solves the problems. Is there anything else that slipped my > mind, that would allow me to update kvm on all machines? I knew that > the version shipped with the distribution is old, but i went with it > for convenience of installation . If you don't want to compile a new kernel and make a package. You can compile KVM to work with your old kernel. Then, distribute kernel modules (3 files) and kvm/qemu binary (4th file= )=20 with rsync, done. Still, you will have to stop virtual machines, remove/insert kvm=20 modules, start the guests. --=20 Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org