Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-21 Thread Markus Armbruster
Anthony Liguori writes: > On 01/21/2011 04:38 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Anthony Liguori writes: >> >> >>> On 01/20/2011 11:12 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> Anthony Liguori writes: > On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/21/2011 04:38 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: On 01/20/2011 11:12 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: The problem: you want to do serious scalability testing (1000s

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 08:43:20AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/21/2011 04:43 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:50:33PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>On 01/20/2011 11:12 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >>>Anthony Liguori writes: > >>> > On 01/18/2011 02:1

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/21/2011 04:43 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:50:33PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/20/2011 11:12 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: The problem: you want to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:50:33PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/20/2011 11:12 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >Anthony Liguori writes: > > > >>On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >>>The problem: you want to do serious scalability testing (1000s of VMs) > >>>of your managemen

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-21 Thread Markus Armbruster
Anthony Liguori writes: > On 01/20/2011 11:12 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Anthony Liguori writes: >> >> >>> On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> The problem: you want to do serious scalability testing (1000s of VMs) of your management stack. If each guest

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/20/2011 11:12 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: The problem: you want to do serious scalability testing (1000s of VMs) of your management stack. If each guest eats up a few 100MiB and competes for CPU, that r

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-20 Thread Markus Armbruster
Anthony Liguori writes: > On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> The problem: you want to do serious scalability testing (1000s of VMs) >> of your management stack. If each guest eats up a few 100MiB and >> competes for CPU, that requires a serious host machine. Which you don't >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/18/2011 02:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: The problem: you want to do serious scalability testing (1000s of VMs) of your management stack. If each guest eats up a few 100MiB and competes for CPU, that requires a serious host machine. Which you don't have. You also don't want to modify t

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fake machine for scalability testing

2011-01-18 Thread Markus Armbruster
The problem: you want to do serious scalability testing (1000s of VMs) of your management stack. If each guest eats up a few 100MiB and competes for CPU, that requires a serious host machine. Which you don't have. You also don't want to modify the management stack at all, if you can help it. Th