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From: Lynn K. <lf...@ke...> - 2007-11-07 02:31:43
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Hi KVM developers (and lurkers like myself). Apologies in advance as this is probably not the right forum for this question. I've had no success getting an SMP virtual machine running on my AMD Athlon64 X2 server. The base system is Ubuntu 7.10 (recently upgraded from 7.04) with a 2.6.22 kernel and I've tried kvm releases 49 & 50 with no success. My memory of whether or not it worked months ago with kvm-28 on the Ubuntu 2.6.20-16 kernel is no longer with me :-(. The recent failures have all been BIOS problems at rombios.c:10605. I'm pretty sure I must have something wrong in my environment and have spent entirely too much of my spare time trying various things with no success. Can someone that has actually has an SMP virtual machine running currently on an AMD processor (preferably a 64-bit guest) give me some details on the base system kernel, KVM related bits, and the guest OS? Lynn Kerby San Martin, CA |
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From: Izik E. <iz...@qu...> - 2007-11-07 07:39:16
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On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:31 -0800, Lynn Kerby wrote: > Hi KVM developers (and lurkers like myself). > > Apologies in advance as this is probably not the right forum for this > question. > > I've had no success getting an SMP virtual machine running on my AMD > Athlon64 X2 server. The base system is Ubuntu 7.10 (recently > upgraded from 7.04) with a 2.6.22 kernel and I've tried kvm releases > 49 & 50 with no success. My memory of whether or not it worked > months ago with kvm-28 on the Ubuntu 2.6.20-16 kernel is no longer > with me :-(. The recent failures have all been BIOS problems at > rombios.c:10605. I'm pretty sure I must have something wrong in my > environment and have spent entirely too much of my spare time trying > various things with no success. yes, we got some problem with smp on amd right now i hope it will be fixed in the next month (but i cant promise that) |
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From: Avi K. <av...@qu...> - 2007-11-07 11:07:44
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amd-smp.patch
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Lynn Kerby wrote: > Hi KVM developers (and lurkers like myself). > > Apologies in advance as this is probably not the right forum for this > question. > It is certainly the right forum. > I've had no success getting an SMP virtual machine running on my AMD > Athlon64 X2 server. The base system is Ubuntu 7.10 (recently > upgraded from 7.04) with a 2.6.22 kernel and I've tried kvm releases > 49 & 50 with no success. My memory of whether or not it worked > months ago with kvm-28 on the Ubuntu 2.6.20-16 kernel is no longer > with me :-(. The recent failures have all been BIOS problems at > rombios.c:10605. I'm pretty sure I must have something wrong in my > environment and have spent entirely too much of my spare time trying > various things with no success. > Yes you've been doing something wrong -- you should have reported this quickly. Worst case somebody would have pointed out something trivial you're doing wrong and you'd have felt foolish for a bit. But in this particular case... > Can someone that has actually has an SMP virtual machine running > currently on an AMD processor (preferably a 64-bit guest) give me > some details on the base system kernel, KVM related bits, and the > guest OS? > > Turns out kvm smp on amd is broken. I committed a fix for kvm-51, and now I have FC6 running happily with two vcpus. If you see problems, please report them soon. I'd rather have noise on the list than problems going unreported. I'm attaching the patch which fixes the problem, let us know if it helps or not (there may be more problems lurking). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function |
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From: Lynn K. <lf...@ke...> - 2007-11-07 23:48:50
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On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:06 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > Lynn Kerby wrote: >> Hi KVM developers (and lurkers like myself). >> >> Apologies in advance as this is probably not the right forum for >> this question. >> > > It is certainly the right forum. Good to know. There doesn't seem to be a lot of "user" oriented info for KVM and I was wondering if I just couldn't find the forums or what. >> I've had no success getting an SMP virtual machine running on my >> AMD Athlon64 X2 server. The base system is Ubuntu 7.10 >> (recently upgraded from 7.04) with a 2.6.22 kernel and I've tried >> kvm releases 49 & 50 with no success. My memory of whether or >> not it worked months ago with kvm-28 on the Ubuntu 2.6.20-16 >> kernel is no longer with me :-(. The recent failures have all >> been BIOS problems at rombios.c:10605. I'm pretty sure I must >> have something wrong in my environment and have spent entirely >> too much of my spare time trying various things with no success. >> > > Yes you've been doing something wrong -- you should have reported > this quickly. Worst case somebody would have pointed out something > trivial you're doing wrong and you'd have felt foolish for a bit. > But in this particular case... I'd assumed (there's *that* word) that core developer types were using KVM on all kinds of hardware and that basics like this would have been shaken out. I set up a few KVM virtual machines about 6 months ago with the intent of migrating my mail server and some other functions to them but never quite got it working to my satisfaction. Now I've got major problems with the 10+ year old hardware (and software) with that system and it is becoming urgent. >> Can someone that has actually has an SMP virtual machine running >> currently on an AMD processor (preferably a 64-bit guest) give me >> some details on the base system kernel, KVM related bits, and the >> guest OS? >> >> > > Turns out kvm smp on amd is broken. I committed a fix for kvm-51, > and now I have FC6 running happily with two vcpus. > > If you see problems, please report them soon. I'd rather have > noise on the list than problems going unreported. > > I'm attaching the patch which fixes the problem, let us know if it > helps or not (there may be more problems lurking). Yes, that patch works nicely for me as does the kvm-51 release. Thanks, Lynn Kerby San Martin, CA |
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From: Avi K. <av...@qu...> - 2007-11-08 06:05:58
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Lynn Kerby wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:06 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > >> Lynn Kerby wrote: >> >>> Hi KVM developers (and lurkers like myself). >>> >>> Apologies in advance as this is probably not the right forum for >>> this question. >>> >>> >> It is certainly the right forum. >> > > Good to know. There doesn't seem to be a lot of "user" oriented info > for KVM and I was wondering if I just couldn't find the forums or what. > > Well, there's a lot of overlap between kvm and qemu, and there's little setup or black magic needed to use kvm. What particularly are you missing? The intent is that kvm be very easy to use to a unix user proficient in the command line, with the gui junkies served by what virt-manager aims to be (or competing solutions). >> Yes you've been doing something wrong -- you should have reported >> this quickly. Worst case somebody would have pointed out something >> trivial you're doing wrong and you'd have felt foolish for a bit. >> But in this particular case... >> > > I'd assumed (there's *that* word) that core developer types were > using KVM on all kinds of hardware and that basics like this would > have been shaken out. Well, it is a reasonable assumption, but the sad fact is, we do little regression testing on smp here, and Intel doesn't test AMD for some reason. It used to work but regressed. That's something we need to improve on, and quickly. I'm counting on Anthony's plan to flood the known universe with kvm-testing nanobots. > I set up a few KVM virtual machines about 6 > months ago with the intent of migrating my mail server and some other > functions to them but never quite got it working to my satisfaction. > Now I've got major problems with the 10+ year old hardware (and > software) with that system and it is becoming urgent. > Let us know what's not working and we will try to address it. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. |
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From: Alexey E. <al...@gm...> - 2007-11-08 07:00:28
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Hi Avi, Speaking of AMD host - with KVM-51 it doesn't crashes anymore ! But there is still fonts rendering problem with Fedora7/ 32-bit guests. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" |
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From: Avi K. <av...@qu...> - 2007-11-08 07:22:23
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Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi Avi, > > Speaking of AMD host - with KVM-51 it doesn't crashes anymore ! > > But there is still fonts rendering problem with Fedora7/ 32-bit guests. > > Can you update the relevant bug trackers? Please add xpdyinfo output as well. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. |
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From: Gildas <gil...@gm...> - 2007-11-08 12:09:24
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> 2007/11/8, Avi Kivity <av...@qu...>: > > Lynn Kerby wrote: [snip] > > I'd assumed (there's *that* word) that core developer types were > > using KVM on all kinds of hardware and that basics like this would > > have been shaken out. > > Well, it is a reasonable assumption, but the sad fact is, we do little > regression testing on smp here, and Intel doesn't test AMD for some > reason. It used to work but regressed. > > That's something we need to improve on, and quickly. I'm counting on > Anthony's plan to flood the known universe with kvm-testing nanobots. Hi, I've noted that there's less posts from the AMD guys lately (Wei Huang, Joerg Roedel, Markus Rechberger), does it means that AMD decided to stop supporting KVM? If not, I think this is time for AMD to step in and use Anthony's tools to provide a regression testing platform the same way Intel does. It would be really sad to see AMD CPUS being a second class citizen in KVM... Just my 2 cents, Gildas |
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From: Dor L. <dor...@gm...> - 2007-11-08 13:07:17
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Gildas wrote: > > > 2007/11/8, Avi Kivity <av...@qu...>: > > > Lynn Kerby wrote: > [snip] > > > I'd assumed (there's *that* word) that core developer types were > > > using KVM on all kinds of hardware and that basics like this would > > > have been shaken out. > > > > Well, it is a reasonable assumption, but the sad fact is, we do little > > regression testing on smp here, and Intel doesn't test AMD for some > > reason. It used to work but regressed. > > > > That's something we need to improve on, and quickly. I'm counting on > > Anthony's plan to flood the known universe with kvm-testing nanobots. > > Hi, > > I've noted that there's less posts from the AMD guys lately (Wei > Huang, Joerg Roedel, Markus Rechberger), does it means that AMD > decided to stop supporting KVM? > > If not, I think this is time for AMD to step in and use Anthony's > tools to provide a regression testing platform the same way Intel > does. > > It would be really sad to see AMD CPUS being a second class citizen in > KVM... > > Just my 2 cents, > Gildas > You're right about AMD status not matched Intel's at the moment. There was some time it was a bit neglected. AMD & Qumranet are working actively to fix it. KVM-51 supports XP & 2003 but has some issues with other OSs. We will soon solve all of these issues. There is also work in progress wrt regression testing. Thanks for the feedback, Dor. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel > |
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