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HP wspiera studentów w Szczecinie
30 września br. Centrum Edukacji i Badań HP oficjalnie rozpoczęło swoją działalność przy Zachodniopomorskim Uniwersytecie Technologicznym w Szczecinie. Ośrodek powstał w ramach programu Międzynarodowego Instytutu Technologicznego HP (IIT HP). Jego głównym celem jest edukacja światowej klasy specjalistów w dziedzinie IT i zapewnienie zarówno studentom, jak i wykładowcom dostępu do najnowocześniejszych technologii.

 

198224644112_559560007426Joerg Roedel
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:12:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: You mean Windows? For heavens sake, why dont you think like Linus thought 20 years ago. To the hell with Windows suckiness and l

 
165026174985_572760007471Joerg Roedel
* Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: - Its more secure: the host can have a finegrained policy about what kinds of events it exposes to the guest. It might chose to only expose so

 
137120454818_521360007849Ingo Molnar
* Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:39:04AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: What do you mean by software events? Things like: aldebaran:~ perf

 
192622794803_543260007173Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:44:50AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: Theres a world of a difference between "will not use in certain usecases" and "cannot use at all because weve designe

 
121728884194_575960007404Avi Kivity
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:17:40PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 12:11 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: 1. Enhance perf to count pmu events only when cpu is in guest mode.

 
183720424869_595060007442Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:30 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Even if there were no security considerations, if the guest can observe host data in the pmu, it means the pmu is inaccurate. We should e

 
137622884058_536060007150Zachary Amsden

 
183223864195_564960007214Michael Goldish

 
149825244493_530060007239Gleb Natapov
Linux now has native_store_gdt() to do the same. Use it instead of kvm local version. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 ----- arch/x86/kvm

 
147421734127_566960007188Avi Kivity
segment_base() is used only by vmx so move it there. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 --------- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 37 ++

 
107227694231_594160007870David V Cloud
Hi all, I have been deploying two KVMs on my Debian testing box. Two KVMs each use one tap device connecting to the host. When I doing netperf with large package size from KVM2 (tap1) to KVM1 (tap0)

 
138220944157_544060007172Sridhar Samudrala
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:51 +0800, David V. Cloud wrote: Hi, I read some kernel source. My basic understanding is that, in net/8021q/vlan_dev.c, vlan_dev_init, the dev- features of vconfig

 
159122854558_578660007157Ingmar Schraub
Now that 2.6.33 is out, time to release the corresponding kvm-kmod package as well. Not much has happened since 2.6.33-rc6, though. KVM changes since kvm-kmod-2.6.33-rc6: - PIT: control word is wri

 
200024334682_549360007638Takuya Yoshikawa
Ingmar Schraub wrote: Hello Jan, I can compile kvm-kmod-2.6.32.9 under Ubuntu 9.1 64-Bit, but make install fails with ingmar@nexoc:~/KVM/kvm-kmod-2.6.32.9$ sudo make install [sudo] pa

 
173322074812_586060007744Marcelo Tosatti

 
104829484512_528060007230Paul Brook
Port qemu-kvms -mem-path and -mem-prealloc options. These are useful for backing guest memory with huge pages via hugetlbfs. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx CC: john cooper

 
115022714325_530760007779Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Paul, Thank you for reviewing. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:28:16AM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: IMHO it would be better to check the mem_path != NULL here, rather that burying the check in file_

 
148023014064_503860008000Avi Kivity
From: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx Instead of allocating a separate chunk for the first 640KB and another for 1MB+, allocate one large chunk. This plays well in terms of alignment and size with l

 
119520874432_587760007165Joerg Roedel

 
151523124372_532660007247Alexander Graf
This patch optimizes the way the msrpm of the host and the guest are merged. The old code merged the 2 msrpm pages completly. This code needed to touch 24kb of memory for that operation. The optimize

 
106922214195_558260007083Avi Kivity
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:27:50PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: + static const u32 msrpm_offsets[] = { + 0x0000002c, /* SYSENTER_CS */ + + 0x00000038, /* LASTBRANCHFROMIP +

 
181326524354_513760007065Avi Kivity
On 24.02.2010, at 20:58, Avi Kivity wrote: On 02/24/2010 09:37 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: Isnt there such a list around somewhere already? We really should only keep this list once throu

 
191724394367_598260007455Joerg Roedel
A recent change broke tracing of the nested vmcb address. It was reported as 0 all the time. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2

 
198126734542_541360007122Joerg Roedel
Hyper-V as a guest wants to write this bit. This patch ignores it. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletio

 
157820644435_595160007608Avi Kivity
This patch implements the emulation of the vm_cr msr for nested svm. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx --- arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h | 4 ++++ arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |

 
119824604830_539360007331Joerg Roedel
When injecting an vmexit.intr into the nested hypervisor there might be leftover values in the exit_info fields. Clear them to not confuse nested hypervisors. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.r

 
147728554984_583260007943Joerg Roedel
This patch adds a tracepoint to get information about the most important intercept bitmasks from the nested vmcb. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |

 
189829104382_526460007860Joerg Roedel
This patch removes whitespace errors, fixes comment formats and most of checkpatch warnings. Now vim does not show c-space-errors anymore. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx ---

 
172028714532_526260007081Jan Kiszka

 
138428634145_582060007536Jan Kiszka
There is no need for the this hack anymore, initialization is now robust against reordering as it doesnt try to write the VCPU state on its own. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx

 
142720104997_525660007038Marcelo Tosatti
Do not write nmi_pending, sipi_vector, and mpstate unless we at least go through a reset. And TSC as well as KVM wallclocks should only be written on full sync, otherwise we risk to drop some time on

 
158828814894_557160007887Jan Kiszka
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:17:53PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Do not write nmi_pending, sipi_vector, and mpstate unless we at least go through a reset. And TSC as well as

 
151426104796_589660007686Jan Kiszka
As we hard-wire the BSP to CPU 0 anyway and cpuid_apic_id equals cpu_index, cpu_is_bsp can also be based on the latter directly. This will help an early user of it: KVM while initializing mp_state.

 
175525944557_528760007841Marcelo Tosatti
Drop kvm_load_tsc in favor of level-dependent writeback in kvm_arch_load_regs. KVMs PV clock MSRs fall in the same category and should therefore only be written back on full sync. Signed-off-by: Jan

 
136822404703_551460007515Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:17:55PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Drop kvm_load_tsc in favor of level-dependent writeback in kvm_arch_load_regs. KVMs PV clock MSRs fall in th

 
104924874526_504660007930Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:45:55AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:17:55PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Drop kvm_load_tsc i

 
108423314810_597960007522Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:58:26AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:45:55AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wro

 
186524164132_566160007006Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:48:47AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:58:26AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wro

 
134620674600_590460007456Jan Kiszka
Drop kvm_load_tsc in favor of level-dependent writeback in kvm_arch_load_regs. KVMs PV clock MSRs fall in the same category and should therefore only be written back on full sync. Signed-off-by: Jan

 
174427224696_544760007756Jan Kiszka
This add-on patch to recent guest debugging refactorings adds the requested awareness for KVM_CAP_X86_ROBUST_SINGLESTEP to both the upstream as well as qemu-kvms own code. Fortunately, code sharing i

 
196322854243_548860007987Jan Kiszka
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Push mpstate reading/writing into kvm_arch_load/save_regs and, on x86, properly synchronize with halted in the accessor functions.

 
141724164318_522760007221Jan Kiszka
Jan Kiszka wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Push mpstate reading/writing into kvm_arch_load/save_regs and, on x86, properly synch

 
175022604638_588260007951Jan Kiszka
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:17:48PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Lets proceed with cleaning up the VCPU state writeback. The differences to v2 are: - included guest debugging update patch and rebas

 
188822674017_548860007372Avi Kivity
Add io memory to test device. This is needed by emulator test. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx diff --git a/hw/testdev.c b/hw/testdev.c index ac5b9cd..ad34e43 100644 --- a/hw/testde

 
194429154094_564060007330Gleb Natapov
Add check_image.py in scripts folder. It will performance qemu-img info and qemu-img check. Add check_image.py as post command of qcow2 variant. Signed-off-by: Feng Yang <fyang@xxxxxxxxxx ---

 
139623244616_563960007947Avi Kivity
Implement jmp far opcode ff/5. It is used by multiboot loader. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 de

 
162622304363_594560007759Gleb Natapov
Add decoding of Ep type of argument used by callf/jmpf. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 d

 
116522074018_580360007940Takuya Yoshikawa

 
175329784207_577160007378Avi Kivity
This patch changes the get dirty log ioctl to inform the already scanned clean bitmap area to userspace. Without this patch, the information obtained by the scan in kernel is just ignored. To fix th

 
114224104293_523760007655Takuya Yoshikawa