From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751957Ab0CRHEt (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:04:49 -0400 Received: from psi.thgersdorf.net ([188.40.92.130]:53905 "EHLO mail.psioc.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750922Ab0CRHEs (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:04:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:04:43 +0100 From: Dieter Ries To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Alexander Graf , Avi Kivity , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/42] KVM: Activate Virtualization On Demand Message-ID: <20100318070443.GB24062@Localhorst.asterix.local> References: <1258373983-8693-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <1258373983-8693-24-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4BA1504A.3090801@dieterries.net> <808FF008-53B9-4271-904C-117A24ADF18C@suse.de> <20100317224002.GA5156@Localhorst.asterix.local> <4BA1BD08.4020401@msgid.tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BA1BD08.4020401@msgid.tls.msk.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:41:28AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Dieter Ries wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:02:40PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > [] > >> Are you 100% sure you don't have vmware, virtualbox, parallels, whatever running in parallel on that machine? > > > > Definitely. I have virtualbox installed, but haven't used it in months. > > The others I don't use at all, so they are not installed either. > > Dieter, we've talked with you on IRC yesterday... Yes, I remember. > Can you take a look at what's in the startup script sequence on > your machine, and what modules are loaded which may be related? > What I'm trying to say: I don't know how virtualbox works, but it > may come with a kernel module or a bootup script that touches SVM > settings. I checked it again: I don't even have the virtualbox modules installed for this kernel, I cannot modprobe them. lsmod is here: before modprobe kvm_amd Module Size Used by snd_pcm_oss 33062 0 snd_mixer_oss 13798 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss 23963 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5684 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 44953 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 5481 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq nvidia 9613596 40 snd_hda_codec_realtek 264327 1 snd_hda_intel 20099 4 snd_hda_codec 57443 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 5642 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 68342 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 17426 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 52486 17 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 6287 1 snd snd_page_alloc 7029 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_core 18944 1 nvidia after: Module Size Used by kvm_amd 32387 0 kvm 249238 1 kvm_amd snd_pcm_oss 33062 0 snd_mixer_oss 13798 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss 23963 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5684 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 44953 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 5481 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq nvidia 9613596 40 snd_hda_codec_realtek 264327 1 snd_hda_intel 20099 4 snd_hda_codec 57443 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 5642 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 68342 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 17426 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 52486 17 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 6287 1 snd snd_page_alloc 7029 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_core 18944 1 nvidia This is a gentoo box, and there are no services started which are related to virtualization. No autoloaded modules or anything. Just standard desktop stuff + lvm and raid. Runlevel: boot hwclock [ started ] modules [ started ] lvm [ started ] device-mapper [ started ] fsck [ started ] root [ started ] mtab [ started ] hostname [ started ] localmount [ started ] sysctl [ started ] bootmisc [ started ] sysklogd [ started ] urandom [ started ] termencoding [ started ] consolefont [ started ] net.lo [ started ] staticroute [ started ] mdadm [ started ] swap [ started ] acpid [ started ] procfs [ started ] keymaps [ started ] modules is empty. And additionally after boot: Runlevel: default sysklogd [ started ] dbus [ started ] hald [ started ] xdm [ started ] preload [ started ] udev-postmount [ started ] ntpd [ started ] alsasound [ started ] avahi-daemon [ started ] cupsd [ started ] sshd [ started ] local [ started ] Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged net.eth1 [ started ] Dynamic Runlevel: needed udev-mount [ started ] sysfs [ started ] > /mjt cu Dieter