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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM Call agenda for July 13th
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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On 07/12/2010 11:38 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/13/2010 01:08 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 07/12/2010 05:07 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> On 07/12/2010 04:57 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
>>>> * Juan Quintela (quintela@redhat.com) wrote:
>>>>> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.
>>>> 0.13 ;-)
>>>
>>> - vCPU limits; how much testing has anyone done of 64-way guests?
>>> - Finding a way to enable virtio by default; any clever ideas?
>>
>> Both of these are really in the category of, getting good performance 
>> out of KVM when running it as a casual user (like via virt-manager).
>
> Casual users starting 64-way guests?

A 4-socket octal core is 32 physical cores or 64 threads.  That's not a 
super high end system today and it's going to approach mid-range in the 
not too distant future.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori