From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Damjan <gdamjan@mail.net.mk>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Some FAQ questions
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:10:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480DC78E.5020506@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421144152.GA22095@legolas.on.net.mk>
Damjan wrote:
> I have some questions for the FAQ, about the configuration of Linux guests:
> a) is swap needed in the guest (I'd say no, but..)
> b) what filesystem is best for a guest
> c) what io scheduler in the guest (noop? or cfq)
> d) are there any runtime kernel tweaks for the guest (/proc/sys)?
>
For the first four questions, do whatever you'd do for a similarly
configured host running a similar workload. It's fine to use cfq as the
I/O scheduler.
> e) suggested linux kernel source configuration (.config)
With newer kernels, be sure to enable virtio drivers, kvm clock, and kvm
mmu paravirtualization.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-21 14:41 Some FAQ questions Damjan
2008-04-22 11:10 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-04-22 11:27 ` Luca Tettamanti
2008-04-22 11:35 ` Avi Kivity
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