From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
ming.m.lin@intel.com, sheng.yang@intel.com,
Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: KVM usability
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:36:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8C799A.6000102@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62EE499D-BE5D-4014-80C7-6FB3A0A1C71E@suse.de>
On 03/01/2010 08:34 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 01.03.2010, at 22:59, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>
>> On 03/01/2010 03:12 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>>
>>> kvm -m 512 -cdrom
>>> /home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/iso/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso -drive
>>> file=/home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-0086OD.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on
>>> -usb -usbdevice tablet -net nic,model=virtio -net user -soundhw es1370
>>>
>>> Among these:
>>> * 512MB is a nice step up from the 128MB by default (this one scales
>>> based on your hosts memory)
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not opposed to bumping from 128M to something else. I'd like to see some indication though other than "seems reasonable" as to what the value should be. For instance, if a Fedora 12 install doesn't work without 256M, that's a solid argument to bump the allocation. Short term, I'd like to see this globally configurable.
>>
> I keep a patch in the SUSE version for quite some time now that bumps the default to 384 for qemu-kvm. That was the first "round" number where an openSUSE installation worked.
>
If someone works up a patch and tests at least a couple types of guests
to confirm that they all install with that number, I'd be happy to apply
it (although we need some trickery to support older pc versions).
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1267068445.1726.25.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <1267089644.12790.74.camel@laptop>
2010-02-26 2:49 ` Enhance perf to support KVM Zhang, Yanmin
2010-02-26 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 10:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 10:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 11:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 11:44 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 12:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 12:54 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 13:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:57 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 15:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 16:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-02 17:12 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-02 17:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-02 17:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-02 17:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 18:33 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-27 10:56 ` KVM usability Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 13:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-27 13:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2010-02-27 14:48 ` Ian Kirk
2010-02-27 15:32 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-27 17:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 15:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 16:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-01 17:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-01 18:29 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-01 20:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 21:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 22:06 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-02 0:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-02 0:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-02 2:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 8:39 ` Chris Webb
2010-03-07 18:42 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 10:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 9:35 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 9:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-07 10:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 15:14 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-07 18:16 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:01 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-07 18:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:53 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-07 19:05 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-01 9:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 15:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 15:42 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-02 1:12 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-02 10:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-02 13:37 ` Nikolai K. Bochev
2010-03-02 14:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-02 14:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 9:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 14:37 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-02 14:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-02 14:56 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-02 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-04 20:00 ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2010-03-04 20:13 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-04 20:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-04 22:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-05 7:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-03-07 11:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-01 21:12 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-01 21:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 2:34 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-02 2:36 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-03-09 13:32 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:32 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-09 14:38 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-09 14:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 14:52 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 17:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 17:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 17:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 14:54 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 3:02 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-02 8:21 ` Chris Webb
2010-03-02 14:54 ` Dustin Kirkland
[not found] ` <428008581.20100302103400@eternallybored.org>
2010-03-07 11:35 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-04 12:31 ` High CPU use of -usbdevice tablet (was Re: KVM usability) Chris Webb
2010-04-04 12:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Webb
2010-04-04 14:25 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 14:25 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 16:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-04 16:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-04 21:03 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 21:03 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 21:53 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 21:53 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-05 8:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 8:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-03 2:57 ` KVM usability Ross Boylan
2010-03-03 8:55 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-03 15:42 ` Ross Boylan
2010-03-07 14:29 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 11:48 ` Enhance perf to support KVM Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 11:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 20:17 ` Anthony Liguori
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