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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Luca Tongiani <luca.tongiani@sinte.net>,
	xen-users <xen-users@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: Question about VirtIO on Xen - Disk performance issues
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:34:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1450193672.16856.189.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56701113.1080107@sinte.net>

On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 14:09 +0100, Luca Tongiani wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I'm writing you this mail for asking some advice about a great problem 

This sort of question is on topic for xen-users@, but since it is not a
development question not for xen-devel@. I've moved the To line over and am
bccing the dev list.

Also please do not post HTML.


> i'm havin in running a Windows VM (HVM) onto a Xen (Gentoo based)
> Hypevisor.
> 
> I need to achieve maximum performance from this VM because of intense SQL
> tasks running in it.
> 
> I've seen good improvement in IO on disk using VirtIO on a Windows VM
> onto a QEMU (QNAP) hypervisor, and i'm tryin to use this feature also on
> my Xen HV.
> Is VirtIO disk a good way to improve performance?

Please see http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/windows-pv-drivers.ht
ml for Xen PV drivers for Windows, which is Xen's equivalent to virtio.

Ian.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-15 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-15 13:09 Question about VirtIO on Xen - Disk performance issues Luca Tongiani
2015-12-15 15:34 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-12-16 11:31 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-05 10:53   ` Luca Tongiani
2016-01-05 11:09     ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-05 12:22       ` Luca Tongiani
2016-01-05 12:42         ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-05 13:52           ` Luca Tongiani
2016-01-05 14:05             ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-05 14:44               ` Luca Tongiani
2016-01-05 17:24                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-05 14:05           ` Luca Tongiani

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