Re: Virtio and WinXP (disk drivers)

[Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>]

Alpár Török wrote:
> 2009/2/25 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>:
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>> Alpár Török schrieb:
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>>> 2009/2/25 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>:
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>>>> Alpár Török schrieb:
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>>>>>> Indeed virtio performs better than e1000.
>>>>>> It should work, please provide host kernel version, kvm version, virtio
>>>>>> net
>>>>>> version and
>>>>>> windows guest type. Also the cmdline and monitor command will help.
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>>>>> kernel is 2.6.25.16-0.1-default of openSuse 11.0
>>>>> KVM version is 63-31.1 (also shipped with the distribution)
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>>>> This is pretty ancient version - could you try kvm-84 to see if it solves
>>>> your problems?
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>>> 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 the
>>> latest KVM compiled in, if there's no other option i will try that, to
>>> 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 .
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>> If you don't want to compile a new kernel and make a package.
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>> You can compile KVM to work with your old kernel.
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>> Then, distribute kernel modules (3 files) and kvm/qemu binary (4th file)
>> with rsync, done.
>> Still, you will have to stop virtual machines, remove/insert kvm modules,
>> start the guests.
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> Stopping guests isn't a problem. i will try this on one machine, to
> see if there are any improvements and post back.
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> On a second thought. Where can i find the pv block drivers for XP ?
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Currently we did not publish the drivers yet. We do plan to do so soon.
Nevertheless, the primary focus in first for all the win2k3, wink8 flavors
and only then for XP (it should be a problem anyway).

Do you have savevm/loadvm issues with virtio and latest kvm (84)?
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>> Tomasz Chmielewski
>> http://wpkg.org
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