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| 00:17 | <ithium> | hi people, I seem to be experiencing this bug: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-01/msg00810.html ...it's very similar, but all I ever get is the Python errors. The weird thing is, it seems to have only started today - maybe I updated to a newer version of Xen with an apt-update or something... I even reinstalled my complete system afresh... I'm on AMD64, Opteron, and although I had an HVM guest running earlier and could see t |
| 00:19 | <ithium> | More information here: http://channels.debian.net/paste/5438 |
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| 00:24 | <ithium> | It seems to be something to do with VNC, but I have vncserver installed :S |
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| 03:38 | <kalden> | hi everybody |
| 03:38 | <kalden> | i nedd to run unmodified solaris install on athlon64 dual core linux |
| 03:38 | <kalden> | i need help to run unmodified solaris install on athlon64 dual core linux |
| 03:39 | <kalden> | any admin or helper here for xen |
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| 05:00 | <lazyb0y> | kalden: don't ask if anybody is there, ask your questions and see if somebody replies |
| 05:01 | <lazyb0y> | and if you don't get any replies here, ask on the mailing list |
| 05:01 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, yes but i need help now |
| 05:01 | <lazyb0y> | kalden: ask your questions. |
| 05:02 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, i've athlon 64 dual core, with xen 3.0.4 under linux/gentoo(64) |
| 05:02 | <kalden> | wen i try to run windows or solairs in hvm |
| 05:02 | <kalden> | they start on the cd and when they load a kernel they freeze |
| 05:03 | <kalden> | before this cd run, they scan hardware all seems to be good |
| 05:03 | <kalden> | but when they display (load kernel or load windows system) they freeze |
| 05:04 | <kalden> | and i don't understand why because i've the svm flag |
| 05:04 | <kalden> | i use hvmloader |
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| 05:04 | <kalden> | have you any idea ? |
| 05:04 | <lazyb0y> | kalden: hvm doesn't run equally well on all systems with a hvm cpu |
| 05:04 | <lazyb0y> | sometimes the borad doesn't allow hvm mode domains to be started at all, sometimes there are freezes |
| 05:05 | <kalden> | what can i use ? |
| 05:05 | <lazyb0y> | I'd suggest trying the xenoppix live cd, and see if it does work with this |
| 05:05 | <lazyb0y> | if this works, it might be some configuration problem |
| 05:06 | <lazyb0y> | not sure, but maybe playing with different acpi settings in dom0 and domU may also change the behaviour |
| 05:06 | <kalden> | yes but i can start on this livecd because i use soft raid 5 array under lvm |
| 05:06 | <lazyb0y> | kalden: you should only try the live cd to see if hvm domains work in general |
| 05:06 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, could i use an other firmware more stable ? |
| 05:06 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, yes i can but not now |
| 05:07 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, i'm not near server |
| 05:07 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, does i download and try to run a prebuild firmware ? |
| 05:08 | <lazyb0y> | I don't know which firmware you mean. normally, there's nothing moir estable than the releases |
| 05:08 | <lazyb0y> | play with the acpi settings as i said, the secons choice after trying a live cd with a proven config first |
| 05:09 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, okay i'll try to play with acpi |
| 05:09 | <lazyb0y> | some problems may also go away with 3.0.4-testing versions or -unstable, your mileage may vary... |
| 05:09 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, the firmware is the bootlaoder defined in windows.hvm |
| 05:10 | <kalden> | Kernel image file. |
| 05:10 | <kalden> | kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" |
| 05:10 | <lazyb0y> | you mean hvmloader. no I don't think you can download a different one. only build a different one with -testing or -unstable |
| 05:10 | <kalden> | it's a virtual bios firmware no ? |
| 05:10 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, ok thanks i'll try it. Where i can download a different version? svn ? |
| 05:11 | <lazyb0y> | I'm not so deep into this low-level stuff. I worked a lot with many different xen configurations, on many distributions, but I am no kernel hacker |
| 05:11 | <lazyb0y> | xenbits.xensource.com |
| 05:11 | <lazyb0y> | you need mercurial for this |
| 05:12 | <kalden> | lazyb0y, thanks for your help |
| 05:12 | <lazyb0y> | kalden: you're welcome :) |
| 05:13 | <kalden> | ^^ |
| 06:09 | <redfire> | VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(3,1) |
| 06:09 | <redfire> | Please append a correct "root=" boot option |
| 06:09 | <redfire> | Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1) |
| 06:10 | <redfire> | fresh install from sources |
| 06:10 | <redfire> | same thing with initrd |
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| 06:30 | <lazyb0y> | redfire: search the mailing list for this error - IIRC it's a reoccuring problem with nearly always the same solution |
| 06:38 | <redfire> | well |
| 06:39 | <redfire> | 2 possible reasons for this prob: |
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| 06:39 | <redfire> | - missing modules: ext3 ide and etc... got both compiled into kernel |
| 06:39 | <redfire> | - bad domu image: works fine under xend demo server |
| 06:40 | <redfire> | and i didnt found any more options to check after few days of googling |
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| 07:01 | <lazyb0y> | redfire: hmm, how does your disk config line look like |
| 07:02 | <redfire> | http://afaik.pl/xen/domu.txt |
| 07:02 | <lazyb0y> | did you create partition _inside_ this image? |
| 07:03 | <redfire> | ye |
| 07:03 | <redfire> | it works fine under xen livecd |
| 07:03 | <lazyb0y> | sorry, i forgot |
| 07:03 | <redfire> | np :p |
| 07:04 | <lazyb0y> | modprobe loop - maybe you need to load the loop module manually. that's the last idea I have then... |
| 07:04 | <lazyb0y> | in dom0! |
| 07:05 | <redfire> | loop is also compiled into kernel, but let me check it for sure... |
| 07:06 | <lazyb0y> | and, what's your dom0 system, and which xen packages do you use? |
| 07:07 | <redfire> | CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y |
| 07:07 | <redfire> | its gentoo distro |
| 07:08 | <redfire> | and xen-3.0.4_1-src.tgz from their homepage |
| 07:10 | <redfire> | i thought thats something is wrong with kernel, so i tried livecd config, custom one, some posted on websited, and now im trying from this src package |
| 07:10 | <lazyb0y> | anything in xend-debug.log? |
| 07:10 | <lazyb0y> | yeah, there's probably something wrong with the kernel or initrd... |
| 07:11 | <lazyb0y> | you could also try sda and see if this works better |
| 07:11 | <lazyb0y> | on fedora, with the fedora xen packages, i sometimes needed to explicitly create a special initrd with explicitly the xen block device driver added. |
| 07:11 | <redfire> | Xend started at Tue Feb 20 12:10:09 2007. |
| 07:11 | <redfire> | Nothing to flush. |
| 07:11 | <redfire> | Nothing to flush. |
| 07:12 | <redfire> | debug |
| 07:12 | <lazyb0y> | nothing to flush is for me normally in xend-hotplug.log, strange |
| 07:12 | <redfire> | well hot is empty |
| 07:13 | <lazyb0y> | strange... |
| 07:13 | <lazyb0y> | did you change a lot of kernel otions in the source build? |
| 07:13 | <lazyb0y> | if so, you could try with a clean config |
| 07:13 | <redfire> | http://phpfi.com/205464 |
| 07:13 | <redfire> | nad thats xend.log |
| 07:14 | <redfire> | no, i added ext3 and ide driver |
| 07:14 | <redfire> | nothing more |
| 07:14 | <lazyb0y> | but now after changing to sda, right |
| 07:14 | <lazyb0y> | hmm, i am not sure if you need them, or if they even cause problems. |
| 07:15 | <lazyb0y> | try first with initrd and default settings |
| 07:15 | <redfire> | well |
| 07:15 | <lazyb0y> | if it works it's surely these changes - but I can't explain why now |
| 07:15 | <redfire> | let me paste with initrd... |
| 07:16 | <redfire> | http://phpfi.com/205466 |
| 07:16 | <redfire> | hmm im using one kernel for dom0 and domu |
| 07:18 | <redfire> | http://phpfi.com/205467 |
| 07:18 | <redfire> | thats linuxrc |
| 07:19 | <redfire> | but i thought initrd is optionally |
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| 07:23 | <lazyb0y> | you can try withour intrd and with changed modules when you know it better :) for a start, I'd try it without changing the kernel config, and with an initrd. |
| 07:23 | <lazyb0y> | initrd is optional when you have the right modules compiled in |
| 07:23 | <lazyb0y> | with then default config, you need it. |
| 07:24 | <redfire> | well |
| 07:24 | <lazyb0y> | when I don#t use initrd, I create a kernel without any modules normally, and make all modules be compiled in |
| 07:25 | <redfire> | lazyb0y i tried default config |
| 07:25 | <redfire> | from the src package |
| 07:25 | <redfire> | with initrd |
| 07:25 | <lazyb0y> | and? |
| 07:25 | <redfire> | dom0 dosnt boot at all |
| 07:25 | <lazyb0y> | umm... |
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| 07:26 | <redfire> | it regognize the hdd |
| 07:26 | <lazyb0y> | I'd post to the mailing list, maybe there's some special tweak needed for gentoo, which I don't know. |
| 07:26 | <redfire> | finds the partitions and so |
| 07:27 | <redfire> | b4 that |
| 07:27 | <redfire> | gonna try one more thing |
| 07:27 | <lazyb0y> | when trying gentoo the last time, it completely trashed all installation on my harddisk just because it didn't recognize the thinkpad rescue partition., and decided to clean the whole partition table... |
| 07:27 | <redfire> | same box with debian unstable |
| 07:28 | <redfire> | :) |
| 07:28 | <redfire> | k, i will try debian later, now i got some other work to do |
| 07:29 | <redfire> | i will write the results in here |
| 07:29 | <redfire> | so for now |
| 07:29 | <redfire> | bb |
| 07:29 | <redfire> | and thx for help ;) |
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| 08:54 | <symerian> | znyone uses rhel5beta2 as a dom0 ? |
| 08:55 | <danpb> | symerian: yep |
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| 08:56 | <symerian> | danpb: doesn't your domU hang at startup ? |
| 08:56 | <danpb> | symerian: nope |
| 08:56 | <symerian> | damn! |
| 08:56 | <danpb> | can you elaborate on 'hang' ? |
| 08:57 | <danpb> | does it hang right at the start of the initial 'xm create', or does the kernel itself hang sometime during boot ? |
| 08:57 | <symerian> | danpb: i try to start a centos44 xen images on my rhel5beta2 dom0 , but it hangs after starting sshd :( |
| 08:58 | <danpb> | symerian: hmm, are you sure it has actually hung, rather than just finished booting normally & not given you a login prompt ? |
| 08:58 | <symerian> | danpb: i'm not , how can i be sure ? |
| 08:59 | <danpb> | try pinging it / logging in via ssh ? |
| 08:59 | <danpb> | (you'll have to check your DHCP server logs to find out which IP addr was given out, or just sniff the net traffic on Dom0 while the DomU boots) |
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| 09:17 | <symerian> | danpb: trying right now, a thing that's odd is : Starting udev: [FAILED] :( |
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| 09:24 | <erick> | hello. Just a question. Using Midnight Commander in a domU vm (not in dom0), it's impossible to use the shortkey ctrl+O to swtich in a sub-shell. |
| 09:24 | <erick> | It seems like if this shortkey is reserved from the vm?... |
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| 09:41 | <symerian> | hum seems weird, my centos is running , but i can't ping it :( |
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| 09:47 | <symerian> | in bridge mode, what gateway should i use with my domU ? |
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| 10:02 | <symerian> | i'm dumb ;) wasn't the right conf |
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| 10:16 | <symerian> | danpb: i can ssh my domU , but xm console still not working |
| 10:22 | <danpb> | so that means your guest OS isn't setup correctly to use the xen virtual console device |
| 10:24 | <symerian> | danpb: any clue to fix this ? |
| 10:25 | <danpb> | its kind of dependant on details of your guest OS / guest kernel |
| 10:26 | <danpb> | but you need to make sure /etc/inittab is setup to spawn a login process on the text console |
| 10:26 | <danpb> | and possibly tell the kernel to send messages to the console with the grub boot args |
| 10:26 | <icblenke> | what does "xm console" report? does it just time out? or sit there and do nothing? |
| 10:26 | <symerian> | icblenke: sit and do nothing, no login prompt |
| 10:27 | <icblenke> | danpb's getty in /etc/inittab solution is the most likely then. |
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| 10:28 | <icblenke> | if xm console sits there and does nothing for an extended period of time, it suggests that xenconsoled _is_ providing a console pty, and the pty _is_ in xenstore, and xenconsole _is_ connecting to the pty, but there is nothing inside the domU generating anything on the frontend console device. |
| 10:30 | <icblenke> | by default, domUs get a xencons=tty, in which case /dev/tty1 inside the domU needs to have a getty running. it is also possible you are booting with xencons=ttyS, in which case you need a getty on /dev/ttyS1. |
| 10:31 | <icblenke> | when you ssh in, can you: echo hello > /dev/tty1 |
| 10:31 | <icblenke> | you should see "hello" in your xm console. |
| 10:32 | <symerian> | icblenke: nothing |
| 10:33 | <symerian> | icblenke: i have this in my log files : Feb 20 11:11:35 centos_pristine kernel: Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 |
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| 10:37 | <icblenke> | Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1, here. |
| 10:37 | <icblenke> | so perhaps your console is on /dev/xvc0 for some reason? |
| 10:37 | <symerian> | let's try |
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| 10:37 | <icblenke> | try: echo "hello" > /dev/xvc0 |
| 10:37 | <icblenke> | and/or change your /etc/inittab to spawn a getty on that. |
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| 10:37 | <symerian> | that work |
| 10:37 | <symerian> | that's it |
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| 10:38 | <danpb> | (11:29:19 AM) icblenke: by default, domUs get a xencons=tty, in which case /dev/tty1 inside the domU needs to have a getty running. it is also possible you are booting with xencons=ttyS, in which case you need a getty on /dev/ttyS1. |
| 10:38 | <danpb> | icblenke: that is kernel specific - it is certainly not the case for any xen kernels in Fedora / RHEL |
| 10:38 | <icblenke> | danpb: I'm guessing the xvc0 thing is a udev thing from centos? |
| 10:38 | <icblenke> | danpb: Good to know. |
| 10:38 | <symerian> | icblenke: yes |
| 10:38 | <danpb> | because letting Xen hijack the normal serial / console is just plain wrong & will never be accepted upstream so we make it default to xvc0 |
| 10:39 | <icblenke> | danpb: I was basing that off of the Xen documentation that I've read, which we all know is generally out of date and incorrect. |
| 10:39 | <danpb> | icblenke: yeah, well upstream Xen kernels don't follow good practice |
| 10:39 | <danpb> | so they do nasty stuff like hijacking the console, IDE driver, SCSI driver, etc, etc |
| 10:39 | <icblenke> | oh, I agree entirely about the hijacking nonsense. |
| 10:39 | <icblenke> | it definitely needs to go. |
| 10:40 | <icblenke> | it causes far more support issues than it solves. |
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| 10:41 | <symerian> | you guys thinking that using xvc0 as default tty ir wrong ? |
| 10:41 | <symerian> | is sorry |
| 10:42 | <icblenke> | xvc0 is better than tty1/ttyS1, that's what we're saying. |
| 10:42 | <symerian> | and it works now, i just hacked my inittab;) |
| 10:42 | <symerian> | thanks a lot guys ! |
| 10:42 | <icblenke> | now if the documentation were only to catch up... |
| 10:43 | <icblenke> | I've made many wiki changes over the past few months. What is the standard process for updating the user manual? |
| 10:44 | <symerian> | i can now work hard on this ;) thanks again guys ;) |
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| 13:48 | <icblenke> | is a 64bit hypervisor / 64bit dom0 supposed to only see 3.5G of 4G of RAM? |
| 13:49 | <riel> | do you have a mainboard that does not remap memory? |
| 13:49 | <icblenke> | I understand the 32bit hypervisor limits that, and that the 32bit+pae hypervisor negates that overhead somewhat... it's a motherboard thing? |
| 13:49 | <riel> | if .5GB is taken for AGP/PCI/... IO memory, and the mainboard can't address more than 4GB physical, you lose |
| 13:49 | <icblenke> | ah. |
| 13:50 | [~] | riel has a similar thing with his Dell 9150 at home |
| 13:50 | <riel> | except I "only" lose about 150-200MB of memory |
| 13:50 | <icblenke> | lucky. |
| 13:51 | <icblenke> | I didn't think that the motherboard dictated 64bit mapping like that though. Shows what I know. |
| 13:51 | <icblenke> | PC arch hardware is just so painful sometimes. |
| 13:51 | <mastermind> | my box looses nearly 700MB of ram ... |
| 13:58 | <riel> | the CPU is 64 bits, but the RAM side of the mainboard might still be restricted to 32 address lines :) |
| 13:59 | <danpb> | almost makes ia64 seems attractive ;-) |
| 14:00 | <mastermind> | danpb: or proper hardware ... |
| 14:00 | [~] | murb has hardware like that, in the end i pulled out 2gb and put it in a second machine. |
| 14:02 | <icblenke> | I've read that IBM power5 hardware can run virtual x86 machines.. via emulation? |
| 14:03 | <hollisb> | icblenke: I don't know what you read, but emulation would be the only way |
| 14:03 | <icblenke> | that's what I thought. it seemed a bit odd. |
| 14:03 | <hollisb> | icblenke: maybe you're thinking http://penguinppc.org/news/2006/08/18/transitive ? |
| 14:05 | <icblenke> | http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=215533 |
| 14:05 | <icblenke> | it was about the IBM p5 560Q running 320 x86 virtual machines. |
| 14:07 | <aliguori> | hollisb: can't you get an x86 card for iseries or something? |
| 14:08 | <hollisb> | "320 x86 Linux applications" |
| 14:08 | <hollisb> | aliguori: once, although I don't know if that's still possible |
| 14:09 | <icblenke> | sounds like the old SBUS SunPC cards. what a waste those were. all for WABI. |
| 14:13 | <icblenke> | I'm just not familiar with IBM's Virtualization Engine.. sounds like the Transitive product mentioned above. |
| 14:13 | <hollisb> | no, Virtualization Engine is not an emulator |
| 14:13 | <hollisb> | I don't know what it is, but it's huge and it's not an emulator :) |
| 14:14 | <icblenke> | it's not like IBM doesn't know emulation. they've been emulating mainframes for years. |
| 14:14 | <aliguori> | emulating mainframes? |
| 14:15 | <icblenke> | yes. |
| 14:16 | <icblenke> | they don't exactly make 370/390 cpus anymore. it's all emulated under z/OS anymore. |
| 14:17 | <icblenke> | hercules isn't exactly new. it is very similar to an x86 mainframe emulator IBM has had around for quite some time. |
| 14:20 | <aliguori> | icblenke: i don't think that's right. AFAIK, even 360 apps run native on the modern z's |
| 14:21 | <icblenke> | so you're saying a RISC CPU is running native cpu operations from an ancient 360? |
| 14:22 | <aliguori> | i'm not a z expert, but i believe that's the case |
| 14:22 | <hollisb> | me neither, but me too |
| 14:22 | <icblenke> | that just doesn't sit right with me. I'm sure it's _possible_ |
| 14:22 | <aliguori> | icblenke: i know there's still a 24 bit address mode |
| 14:22 | <hollisb> | icblenke: you think it's ridiculous that a modern processor is crippled with the compatibility legacy from decades ago? |
| 14:22 | <hollisb> | me too |
| 14:22 | <aliguori> | heh |
| 14:23 | <aliguori> | seriously, google for the a20 bit :-) |
| 14:23 | <aliguori> | the x86 has plenty of crud from decades ago |
| 14:24 | <hollisb> | really? |
| 14:24 | <hollisb> | oh, you're talking to somebody else :) |
| 14:24 | <aliguori> | :-) |
| 14:24 | <icblenke> | ah. the z9 processor isn't a power5. |
| 14:24 | <hollisb> | nope |
| 14:25 | <icblenke> | and the z9 is definitely cisc. |
| 14:25 | <aliguori> | i don't think there's such a thing as risc/cisc anymore |
| 14:26 | <hollisb> | I just watched people waste literally an hour of IRC time on this topic yesterday |
| 14:26 | <icblenke> | I'd rather not repeat that. |
| 14:26 | <icblenke> | I'm more interested in understanding IBM's virtualization approach. |
| 14:26 | <hollisb> | hah |
| 14:26 | <hollisb> | yes that will consume much less time |
| 14:27 | <riel> | just google for "milicode" (or millicode?) |
| 14:28 | <riel> | it's like custom written microcode for whatever clever hack the OS wants to do :) |
| 14:28 | <riel> | add an instruction on the fly |
| 14:28 | <aliguori> | excellent |
| 14:28 | <icblenke> | ah. FLEX-ES. that was the old IBM mainframe emulator for PC architecture. |
| 14:28 | <riel> | if you need proof that s390 isn't classical CISC with a zillion hardcoded instructions, millicode is it :) |
| 14:29 | <icblenke> | UMX Virtual Mainframe from UNIX technologies is one of the other mainframe emulators. |
| 14:29 | <icblenke> | http://www.isham-research.co.uk/emulation_1st_fud.html |
| 14:30 | <icblenke> | http://www.isham-research.co.uk/z890_vs_emulation.html |
| 14:30 | <icblenke> | hardware vs emulation. |
| 14:31 | <icblenke> | "It takes around 65MHz of Intel 32-bit performance to achieve one zSeries 31-bit MIPS" |
| 14:31 | <aliguori> | icblenke: noone is going to take a z workload and use an emulator to run it on 32-bit. you don't buy a z for cpu performance. you buy it for io bandwidth and reliability |
| 14:31 | <aliguori> | s/32-bit/x86/ |
| 14:32 | <aliguori> | there was a clarkson paper that compared some CPU benchmarks on a z to an x86 |
| 14:32 | <icblenke> | right. |
| 14:32 | <aliguori> | long time ago |
| 14:32 | <aliguori> | using xen |
| 14:33 | <icblenke> | milicode sounds fascinating. googling. |
| 14:36 | <icblenke> | "bla". what an opcode right there. |
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| 14:54 | <grehn> | http://www.ibm.com/products/learn/servers/us/?trac=L5 |
| 14:54 | <grehn> | z9 is listed there |
| 14:56 | <riel> | higher end x86 servers have probably overtaken zseries for IO bandwidth, too |
| 14:58 | <hollisb> | you could emulate the space shuttle's software on a high-end x86 box, but would you launch with that? |
| 14:58 | <hollisb> | some people wouldn't, at least :) |
| 14:59 | <danpb> | hollisb: you can emulate the space shuttle's hardware with an old car & a big rocket..... and you certainly don't want to launch that ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9TBgkJC3co :-) |
| 15:00 | <riel> | hollisb: are you saying you'd want to launch the shuttle? :) |
| 15:00 | <riel> | "here guys, go sit under the rocket, we'll start the countdown in a bit" |
| 15:01 | <hollisb> | danpb: lol. wtf is that? :) |
| 15:01 | <rharper> | danpb: awesome! |
| 15:01 | <danpb> | hollisb: its from the UK TV motoring show 'Top Gear' |
| 15:03 | <aliguori> | domain groups? |
| 15:08 | <danpb> | aliguori: hey, your VNC widget disappeared from your HG repos ... any reason ? |
| 15:08 | <aliguori> | danpb: server got hacked, just haven't restored everything yet. will push it back up there when i get home |
| 15:09 | <danpb> | ah, nasty |
| 15:09 | <aliguori> | yeah, now that server's in a vm :-) |
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| 15:10 | <hollisb> | aliguori: KVM guest? ;) |
| 15:10 | <aliguori> | hollisb: kqemu at the moment |
| 15:10 | <aliguori> | i do kvm development on the box so i need to be able to reload the module |
| 15:15 | <bluefox> | Anyone know what Linus' stance on Xen is? |
| 15:16 | [~] | bluefox wants it included as part of the core Linux kernel... |
| 15:17 | <aliguori> | i want a pony |
| 15:17 | [~] | aliguori steals a hollisb line |
| 15:17 | <hollisb> | me too! me too! |
| 15:18 | <icblenke> | you want a pony included in the kernel? how will it live? |
| 15:18 | <hollisb> | as long as we're doing proper attribution, I must credit Bill Watterson |
| 15:19 | <aliguori> | heh |
| 15:21 | <movement> | ughhh, I saw "live" and read "live migration" |
| 15:21 | <aliguori> | hehe |
| 15:22 | <aliguori> | movement: i would hope that's the only way you'd migrate a pony |
| 15:23 | <icblenke> | unless a pony suspend/revival is good enough. the downside would be the potential inability to revive said pony. |
| 15:25 | <grehn> | anyone had an internet connection around 91? |
| 15:27 | <icblenke> | yes. |
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| 15:48 | <icblenke> | fe_xen/evtchn-vmx.c:212: warning: implicit declaration of function 'for_each_cpu' |
| 15:49 | <icblenke> | I'm attempting to forward port virtualiron's pv drivers to a newer 2.6 kernel |
| 15:49 | <icblenke> | made it past a handful of over minor things to hand-patch. |
| 15:50 | <icblenke> | for_each_cpu is apparently now for_each_cpu_mask |
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| 16:58 | <movement> | danpb: there? |
| 16:58 | <movement> | or riel... FC6 is using page flipping for netfront right? |
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| 17:21 | <riel> | movement: dunno, sorry |
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