From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Recommended Configurations Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:05:54 +0300 Message-ID: <4A11A382.1070702@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Bidewell Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:53988 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753161AbZERSF6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 14:05:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mark Bidewell wrote: > With the increasing integration of KVM into Qemu, I was wondering what > the recommended configurations are for kernel and userspace I see > several combinations: > 1) KVM-85 for both KVM and Qemu (kvm-85.tar.gz) > 2) Official Qemu 0.10.4 with the KVM kernel module. > 3) The Qemu KVM 0.10.4 listed on the KVM site. > Which is the best combination for use for maximum compatibility and performance? > Thanks > It depends on what you're looking for. For laziness, use your distro provided kernel and kvm. For stability, use kvm-kmod-2.6.30 (unreleased as yet). For the latest and greatest, and for particiating in the development effort by testing use the kvm-xx releases. Real men run from git though. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.