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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: kvm tuning guide
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:20:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC2F8B3.8000408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090930050939.GB8714@develbox.linuxbox.cz>

On 09/30/2009 07:09 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> "The default, IDE, is highly supported by guests but may be slow, especially with disk arrays. If your guest supports it, use the virtio interface:"
> Avi,
> what is the status of data integrity issues Chris Hellwig summarized some time ago?
>    

I don't know.  Christoph?

> Is it safe to recommend virtio to newbies already?

I think so.

> Shouldn't SCSI
> be safer (where applicable)?
>    

SCSI suffers from being untested, and I think doesn't truly offer the 
parallelism it appears to.

> nik
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:30:55PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> I wrote a short tuning guide for kvm,
>> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tuning_KVM.  It should all be well known
>> to the list, but a newbie is born every minute.  Please review and
>> expand!
>>
>> -- 
>> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>>
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>>
>>      
>    


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29 17:30 kvm tuning guide Avi Kivity
2009-09-29 17:40 ` Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
2009-09-30  5:09 ` Nikola Ciprich
2009-09-30  6:20   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-09-30 16:03     ` Christoph Hellwig

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