From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Windows XP + Virtio
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 11:01:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB7DFE4.7080402@eburg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B311EA-5CB2-4D04-AEBF-8ED50A74A2E0@office.vcn.com>
On 05/01/2012 04:33 PM, Sean Kennedy wrote:
> I am getting crashes (BSoD) when using Virtio for the disk driver in Windows XP.
I was getting the same thing on Windows Server 2008 guests. The systems
would crash and some of them corrupted their filesystems pretty badly.
I ended up reverting to running them with IDE emulation so that the
virtio block driver wasn't used.
The odd thing was that I benchmarked disk IO using iozone and found that
there was no consistent behavior difference between virtio and emulated
IDE. In fact, emulated IDE sometimes performed better than virtio.
Who else is benchmarking the virtio block devices to see what
performance benefits they provide? What's the best way for users to
measure the difference between the two block IO systems?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-19 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-01 23:33 Windows XP + Virtio Sean Kennedy
2012-05-02 12:56 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2012-05-02 14:54 ` Sean Kennedy
2012-05-02 15:55 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2012-05-03 1:40 ` skennedy
2012-05-19 18:01 ` Gordon Messmer [this message]
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