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Hi Everyone, When you want to use ionice to limit the amount of disk a DomU has, due to have to run ionice on every blkback process? Incidently, what is the format of the blkback process? I see the following in ps aux: blkback.xx.xvda blkback.xx.xvda1 blkback.xx.xvd where xx appears to be the domain ID. I''m curious as to the last few letters mean? Thanks

Hello, I have a big problem: Dom0 is centos5.1, domU are centos5.1. My setup is really simple, the only thing is that I give 3 nics to the domU so I use a modified network script (which has worked since january... since fedora 6): " #!/bin/sh dir=$(dirname "$0") "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=1

Hello, we are using 3.4.3 from Gitco.de on 64bit Centos 5.8 and we have PV guests 64bit. According to described security bug we are in danger. What do you suggest? Wait for gitco update or build xen own with patch? Br Peter

Dear *, I''m more used to work with RedHat like OSes. Still, I did not denied the request from a user who wants a domU based on ubunto. I usually use virt-install to do the job, with a script similar to this one: #!/bin/sh BASE=SL-4.7-i386-pv \ virt-install --nographics \ --nonsparse \ --paravirt \ --noreboot \

With the introduction of indirect segments we can receive requests with a number of segments bigger than the maximum number of allowed iovecs in a bios, so make sure that blkback doesn't try to allocate a bios with more iovecs than BIO_MAX_PAGES Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> ---

Hello. We have a number of Xen 3.4.2. boxes which have constant iowaits at around 10% with spikes up to 100% when accessing data over NFS. We have been unable to nail down the issue. Any advice? System info: release : 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5xen version : #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:49:53 EDT 2010 machine : x86_64 nr_cpus : 16 nr_nodes

Moving grant ref handles from blkbk to pending_req will allow us to get rid of the shared blkbk structure. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org --- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git

Hello Roger Pau Monne, The patch 4d4f270f1880: "xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code" from Nov 16, 2012, leads to the following warning: drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c:238 free_persistent_gnts() warn: 'persistent_gnt' was already freed. drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c 232 pages[segs_to_unmap] = persistent_gnt->page; 233

Hello Roger Pau Monne, The patch 4d4f270f1880: "xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code" from Nov 16, 2012, leads to the following warning: drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c:238 free_persistent_gnts() warn: 'persistent_gnt' was already freed. drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c 232 pages[segs_to_unmap] = persistent_gnt->page; 233

...because vbd_size() dereferences bd_disk if bd_part is NULL. Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek<lersek@redhat.com> --- drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -r 415a9b435fef drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c --- a/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c Mon May 23 18:36:33 2011 +0100 +++ b/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c Wed May 25 12:15:26 2011 +0200 @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@

When backend disconnect, sync IO requests to the disk. Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> --- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c

Hi, One of our colleagues spotted a problem in xentop. Sometimes the VBD_WSECT value suddenly becomes unreasonably high, and it turned out xentop reads /sys/bus/xen-backend/devices/vbd-(domid)-(devID)/statistics/wr_sect into an unsigned long long. That value is exposed by blkback, and among other stat counters, it''s a signed integer: drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h struct

Problem still not solved, or any idea whats wrong. here are some msgs: device vif1.0 entered promiscuous mode alloc irq_desc for 1246 on node 0 alloc kstat_irqs on node 0 brI: port 2(vif1.0) entering learning state device vif1.1 entered promiscuous mode brE: port 2(vif1.1) entering learning state physdev match: using --physdev-out in the OUTPUT, FORWARD and POSTROUTING chains for

Hi, Here is the refreshed version of the multi-page ring patch for blkfront and blkback. I currently don''t have time to refresh the blktap part of the patch. The patch should apply cleanly to the following changeset in the linux 2.6.18 tree: changeset: 752:0b859c9516ba tag: qparent parent: 751:6591b4869889 parent: 748:5012c470f875 user: Keir Fraser

Hi, Creating a new domain is a lot easier in opensuse 11. I follow the instruction on the website and build a virtual machine which uses opensuse 11 as well (I installed it from iso image). Everything works fine except the network. I cannot access the Internet from DomU. Here is some information. P.S. the DomU id is 1. "brctl show" in Dom 0: bridge name bridge id STP

Hi everyone Ok this is really strange. I''ve been messing around with Xen for the past few weeks on a 32bit test machine and CentOS 5.4 and it''s been working fine. At the weekend I went into the office to install Xen on our server but I had a major problem. The server is a home-build with a Tyan s5211 motherboard with an Intel i3210w chipset CentOS 5.4 64bit installed and

Hi all, as promised I run some simple benchmarks using tapdisk2 and the new qemu as disk backends. If you are in a hurry skip to the last section to see the test results. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS --------------------- In order to reproduce these results you need to use the new qemu with linux aio and O_DIRECT as disk backend: - apply the libxl patches that Anthony sent to the list a little while

Hi Everyone, How does one install Ubuntu 10.04 DomU in PV mode when running Xen 4.0? My Dom0 is also running 10.04. Can I still use the CD? Thanks _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hello. I recently tried installing NetBSD-5 on xen-4.0.1-rc5, which resulted in no network (xennet0 can''t get IPs per dhclient and has no connectivity if set by hand). Tried it with netBSD-5.1-RC3-1 i386 PAE & amd64, netBSD-5.0 and even 4, all with the same result. On a older xen version (3.3.1) networking works fine, so I assume it''s a xen bug, and not a netBSD-kernel

Hi, We have a XEN Server running on CentOS 5.5. Details are given below. We have several guest OSs running, but we are unable to install Windows 2008 R2. We can install any 32-bit version of Windows (Vista, 7 etc). When we attempt the install, the process starts as normal, but when the process finishes loading files from the media (just before it enters GUI mode), it Blue Screens with a