On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:30:34PM -0500, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> >>
> >>I am having no issues with para guests, but HVM guests all show dropped
> >>packets.
> >
> >Try changing the Qemu emulated NIC to Intel e1000. Maybe that helps with
> >the
> >performance.
>
> Same
>
> >Or then use PV drivers in the guest.
>
> Can't, its a HVM guest that I don't have control over.
>
Well I guess then your only option is to use stubdoms.
Beware there's a bug (qemu memleak) in xen 3.4.1 related to stubdoms and heavy
io
on hvm guests in general:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/msg00335.html
-- Pasi
> >-- Pasi
> >
> >>I am runing Xen 3.4.1 on linux 2.6.31-rc6, but also have tried older xen
> >>and kernels.
> >>
> >>Also, not sure why I have a vif and a tap for my HVM guests, only have vif
> >>for para.
> >>
> >>[root@xen1 config]# ifconfig tap19.0
> >>tap19.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr B6:B7:E1:71:09:3C
> >> inet6 addr: fe80::b4b7:e1ff:fe71:93c/64 Scope:Link
> >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> >> RX packets:34507 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >> TX packets:43841 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:645 carrier:0
> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
> >> RX bytes:16847714 (16.0 MiB) TX bytes:22711872 (21.6 MiB)
> >>
> >>[root@xen1 config]# ifconfig tap19.1
> >>tap19.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 76:C7:74:AF:CA:EC
> >> inet6 addr: fe80::74c7:74ff:feaf:caec/64 Scope:Link
> >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> >> RX packets:36601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >> TX packets:36018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:457 carrier:0
> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
> >> RX bytes:18152679 (17.3 MiB) TX bytes:17744980 (16.9 MiB)
> >>
> >>[root@xen1 config]# ifconfig vif19.0
> >>vif19.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> >> inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
> >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:2908 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
> >> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >>
> >>[root@xen1 config]# ifconfig vif19.1
> >>vif19.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> >> inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
> >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:181 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
> >> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >>
> >>
> >>[root@xen1 config]# more proxy0.hou-para
> >>import os, re
> >>arch = os.uname()[4]
> >>if re.search('64', arch):
> >> arch_libdir = 'lib64'
> >>else:
> >> arch_libdir = 'lib'
> >>
> >>kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> >>
> >>builder='hvm'
> >>
> >>name = "proxy0.hou"
> >>memory = 2048
> >>vcpus=4
> >>
> >>disk = [ 'file:/share/xen/images/proxy0.hou.img,xvda,w', ]
> >>vif = [ 'mac=00:11:25:00:1E:01, type=ioemu, bridge=private',
> >> 'mac=00:11:25:00:1E:02, type=ioemu, bridge=public' ]
> >>
> >>uuid = '00000014-1111-2222-3333-200809231904'
> >>
> >>device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> >>
> >>sdl=0
> >>opengl=1
> >>vnc=1
> >>vncpasswd=''
> >>stdvga=0
> >>serial='pty'
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>><>
> >>Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
> >>nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com
> >>http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
> >>
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