On 08/30/2011 01:39 PM, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 08/30/2011 12:31 PM, David Ahern wrote: > >> In my case I am setting the MAC address for the VFs in the host at boot; >> they are getting reset on passthrough so the VM driver creates a random >> one. A backport of commit a6b5ea3 fixes one aspect. Looking at the code >> for the igb driver I think commit 8fa7e0f fixes the other reset problem. >> >> On the plus side I can tell you that the VF driver for the VM >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/igbvf%20stable/ >> >> compiles cleaning against WRL3 and appears to work fine (limited testing >> with benchmarks). >> >> kernel module wise I ran some basic KVM tests with kvm-kmod-2.6.32.27; I >> have not tried VF passthrough. This is on my radar as well, so I would >> be interested in what you learn. > > I downloaded the latest kvm-kmod release. It looks interesting, but it > has some issues: > > 1) I use separate source and build output directories. kvm-kmod assumes > that there is a "source" link in my build output directory pointing back > to the source directory. This doesn't exist, so the build breaks. > > 2) If I create such a link, it builds a few files, and then gives the > following: > > /home/cfriesen/Download/kvm-kmod-3.0b/x86/x86.c: In function > ‘vcpu_enter_guest’: > /home/cfriesen/Download/kvm-kmod-3.0b/x86/x86.c:5539:26: error: > ‘prof_on’ undeclared (first use in this function) > /home/cfriesen/Download/kvm-kmod-3.0b/x86/x86.c:5539:26: note: each > undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in > > > This appears to be due to the fact that KVM_PROFILING is defined > unconditionally in my kernel, but "prof_on" is only defined if > CONFIG_PROFILING is enabled. Commenting out that chunk of code in x86.c > lets everything build. I was a bit nervous trying kmod's from that much ahead of 2.6.27; that's why I picked the 2.6.32 train. Also, the notes for adding the device assignment to Fedora 11 might come in handy: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment I have not walked through the bug references yet, but Fedora 11 is not too far ahead of WRL3. When I backported perf to WRL3 I used Fedora 10 as a reference. For VT-d, Fedora 11 would be interesting to look at -- is the support complete in F-11 and if so take a look at its kernel source. David > > I haven't tried actually loading it yet, that will be next. > > Thanks for the pointer. > Chris > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
