Re: Virtio Devices Patch

On 04/18/2013 11:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Eric Shubert" <[email protected]>
>> À: [email protected]
>> Envoyé: Jeudi 18 Avril 2013 22:29:03
>> Objet: [IPCop-devel] Virtio Devices Patch
>>
>> A fellow developer (Justin H) and I have successfully built the
>> latest
>> (7001) IPCop with support for Virtio (paravirtualized KVM) disk and
>> network devices. These drivers are part of the kernel, and provide
>> significant performance improvements for IPCop virtual hosts running
>> under Linux KVM.
>>
>> The svn diff patch file is attached. It's fairly simple. The code is
>> replicated and tailored from existing IPCop code, and existing code
>> is pretty much untouched.
>>
> Thank for the patch.
> I will care to integrate.
>
> Index: src/installer/partition.c
> ===================================================================
> --- src/installer/partition.c	(revision 7001)
> +++ src/installer/partition.c	(working copy)
> @@ -622,6 +622,8 @@
>       /* TODO be more specific which modules to include */
>       fprintf(handle, "ext3\njbd\n");
>       fprintf(handle, "ehci-hcd\nohci-hcd\nuhci-hcd\nhid\nusbhid\n");
> +    // include virtio so se can boot from a virtio disk.
> +    fprintf(handle, "virtio\nvirtio_pci\nvirtio_blk\n");
>
> Appart of the typo, maybe we could detect boot from KVM?
>
> http://www.dmo.ca/blog/detecting-virtualization-on-linux/
> say 'dmesg | grep -i virtual' detect for all virtualized cases.
>
> To be specific for KVM, I suppose this should do the trick.
> dmesg | grep -i 'paravirtualized kernel on KVM'
>
> Could you confirm?
>
> Gilles
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks Gilles.

I'll incorporate said change, and see about doing the same when 
detecting the nic so the subsystem_deviceid can be stored so that the 
routine in networking.c will find it. I'll post another patch when I get 
it done. Hopefully this weekend.

Thanks again.


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'


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