[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] KVM vcpu hotplug seabios infrastructure

Liu, Jinsong jinsong.liu at intel.com
Wed Jun 9 11:38:41 CEST 2010


Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> 
>> Currently we didn't test it with Windows 2008 datacenter.
>> 
>> However, similar patch we also used for Xen (now already in Xen
>> upstream). 
>> At Xen side, our QA team has tested with Windows 2008 datacenter.
>> For vcpu hot-add, it worked well, the new CPUs can be found on both
>> device manager and task manager. 
>> For vcpu hot-remove, as you said, it cannot work since cpu
>> hot-remove is not supported by any Windows yet. 
>> 
>> At KVM side, we test the patch with linux 2.6.32, vcpu hot-add and
>> hot-remove both worked well. 
>> If you need, we can co-work with our QA to test our KVM patch with
>> Windows 2008 datacenter. 
>> 
> It will be very helpful! Can you ask them to test the patch please?

Gleb,

Shaohui has done KVM vcpu hotplug test with Windows 2008 datacenter.
For vcpu hot-add, new CPUs can be found on device manager.
Thanks a lot for Shaohui's help!

Regards,
Jinsong


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