currently there is no way to fully disable any graphic card device for
the PC architecture.
You can have no graphical output, thanks to -nographic, but you would
have the VGA device connected to your PCI bus anyway.
There is already a convenient -vga option to choose between std, cirrus
and vmware; this patch add the new option "none" to select no graphic
card at all.
Signed-off-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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After my last patch to fix interrupt coalescing was rejected
on the basis that it is too intrusive we decided to make the
fix much more localized and only fix the problem for RTC time
source. Unfortunately it is impossible to fix the problem entirely
inside RTC code like Andrzej proposed since Windows reads RTC
register C more then once on each time interrupt so it is impossible
to count reliably how many interrupt windows actually handled.
Proposed solution is localized to I386 target and is disabled by
default. To enable it "-rtc-td-hack" flag should be used.
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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This patch adds the typical qemu console command line switch to the virtio
console. using -virtioconsole ARG it can now be specified what output a guest
hvc should be redirected to.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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This patch adds the virtio console to qemu. This console can be found after the
serial and parallel outputs as another virtual console. In the -nographic case
it is redirected to the null output by default.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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ac97 has drivers for Vista 64-bit whereas sb16 and es1370 do not appear to.  I
asked malc why it was disabled and he said it was because it was GPL.  He did
not object to enabling it now that more QEMU code is GPL'd.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Allow the user to supply a vlan client name on the command line.

This is probably only useful for management tools so that they can
use their own names rather than parsing the output of 'info network'.
Signed-off-by: NMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Windows calculates HW "uniqueness" based on a hard drive serial number
among other things. The patch allows to specify drive serial number
from a command line.
Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Change from v1:
  Avoid changing the existing coding style in certain files.
Signed-off-by: NStuart Brady <stuart.brady@gmail.com>

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Since the introduction of net.c in r5581 there had been 2 places where
the location of the TAP helper scripts and SMB daemon are defined.

The following patch move those definitions to net.h so they are accessible
for net.c and vl.c but defined only once

(Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)

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This patch adds HPET emulation.  It can be disabled with -disable-hpet.  An hpet
provides a more finely granular clocksource than otherwise available on PC.
This means that latency-dependent applications (e.g. multimedia) will generally
be smoother when using the HPET.
Signed-off-by: NBeth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Currently on x86, qemu initializes CPUState but KVM ignores it and does its
own vcpu initialization. However, PowerPC KVM needs to be able to set the
initial register state to support the -kernel and -append options.
Signed-off-by: NHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Thanks to Segher Boessenkool and Holis Blanchard.

AIX and Darwin cache inquiry:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-08/msg00388.html

Auxiliary vectors:
http://manugarg.googlepages.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors

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qcow2 writes a cluster reference count on every cluster update.  This causes
performance to crater when using anything but cache=writeback.  This is most
noticeable when using savevm.  Right now, qcow2 isn't a reliable format
regardless of the type of cache your using because metadata is not updated in
the correct order.  Considering this, I think it's somewhat reasonable to use
writeback caching by default with qcow2 files.

It at least avoids the massive performance regression for users until we sort
out the issues in qcow2. 
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Balloon devices allow you to ask the guest to allocate memory.  This allows you
to release that memory.  It's mostly useful for freeing up large chunks of
memory from cooperative guests.

Ballooning is supported by both Xen and VirtIO.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Virtio-blk is a paravirtual block device based on VirtIO.  It can be used by
specifying the if=virtio parameter to the -drive parameter.

When using -enable-kvm, it can achieve very good performance compared to IDE or
SCSI.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Changeset r5636 changed the timers to run in the alarm callback.  The 
alarm callback can only be called as frequently as the host alarm timer 
fires.  For older Linux hosts and possibly non-Linux hosts, this can be 
as high as a 1ms granularity.

icount calculates the select timeout based on the next deadline and 
select is usually capable of sleeping for a short period of time than 
alarm timer granularity.  This means that changing the timer callbacks 
to be based on alarm firing caused timers to fire much later than they 
ought to when using icount.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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This patch enhances QEMU's built-in debugger for SMP guest debugging.
Using the thread support of the gdb remote protocol, each VCPU is mapped
on a pseudo thread and exposed to the gdb frontend. This way you can
easy switch the focus of gdb between the VCPUs and observe their states.
On breakpoint hit, the focus is automatically adjusted just as for
normal multi-threaded application under gdb control.

Furthermore, the patch propagates breakpoint and watchpoint insertions
or removals to all CPUs, not just the current one as it was the case so
far. Without this, SMP guest debugging was practically unfeasible.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Signed-off-by: NJean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>


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This is pure code motion.  The savevm code is all common code so we can build
it once and share the object with all executables.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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KVM's live migration support included support for exec: URLs, allowing system
state to be written or received via an arbitrary popen()ed subprocess. This
provides a convenient way to pipe state through a compression algorithm or an
arbitrary network transport on its way to its destination, and a convenient way
to write state to disk; libvirt's qemu driver currently uses migration to exec:
targets for this latter purpose.

This version of the patch refactors now-common code from migrate-tcp.c into
migrate.c. 
Signed-off-by: NCharles Duffy <Charles_Duffy@messageone.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Signed-off-by: NAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

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Currently tap does not generate signals on I/O; this causes
network latency to be dependent on the timer tick (1ms without
dyntick, guest dependent with dyntick).  By generating a signal
on I/O, we can inform the guest immediately that a packet has
arrived.
Signed-off-by: NAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

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Signed-off-by: NChristoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>


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host_alarm_timer fires in a separate thread.  The windows build current
uses SetEvent() and WaitEvent() to then notify the main thread.  This is
functionally equivalent to what we're doing in Unix with pipe().  So let's
just #ifdef the pipe() code on Windows since it doesn't build there anyway.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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This further cleans up the main loop getting it a lot closer to what a main
loop should be.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Changing the default IO timeout to 5 s (#5578) made a race visible
between the alarm_timer and select() in main_loop_wait(): If the timer
fired before select was able to block, the full select() timeout could
have been applied instead of returning immediately. Since #5578, this
causes heavy problems to the Musicpal board emulation with stalls up to
5 s, but also with some older Linux guest kernels.

The following patch introduces a pipe that is written to by
host_alarm_handler and select()'ed in main_loop_wait(). This avoids
prevents that select() blocks though a timer has fired and waits for
processing.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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This patch adds very basic KVM support.  KVM is a kernel module for Linux that
allows userspace programs to make use of hardware virtualization support.  It
current supports x86 hardware virtualization using Intel VT-x or AMD-V.  It
also supports IA64 VT-i, PPC 440, and S390.

This patch only implements the bare minimum support to get a guest booting.  It
has very little impact the rest of QEMU and attempts to integrate nicely with
the rest of QEMU.

Even though this implementation is basic, it is significantly faster than TCG.
Booting and shutting down a Linux guest:

w/TCG:  1:32.36 elapsed  84% CPU

w/KVM:  0:31.14 elapsed  59% CPU

Right now, KVM is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled with
 -enable-kvm.  We can enable it by default later when we have had better
testing.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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It is safe not to set dpy_refresh and that's used to indicate that the display
doesn't need updates.  This saves us two wakeups per second.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Mostly code motion.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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The motivating goal behind this is to allow other tools to use the CharDriver
code.  This patch is pure code motion except for the Makefile changes and the
copyright/header in qemu-char.c.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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The goal of this series is to move the CharDriverState code out of vl.c and
into its own file, qemu-char.c.  This patch moves around some declarations so
the next patch can be pure code motion.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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With the recent changes to the main loop, we no longer have unconditional
polling.  This means we can now sleep in select() for much longer than we
previously did.  This patch increases our select() sleep time from 10ms to 5s
which is effectively unlimited since we're going to wake up sooner than that
in almost all circumstances.

With this patch, I see the number of wake-ups with an idle dynamic ticks guest
drop from 80 per second to about 15 times per second.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



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Tidy up win32 main loop bits, allow timeout >= 1s, and force timeout to 0 if
there is a pending bottom half.



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