On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:09:29PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:59:57 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > NB, there are paravirtualized drivers for Windows on KVM available > > that will make I/O fast. Any OS is slow without paravirt drivers, no > > matter what virt technology you use. > > Paravirtualized means: KVM without processor support or with? KVM requires hardware virt support for CPU virtualization. For I/O drivers (ie disk, net) it uses emulated hardware from QEMU by default, but also supports VirtIO which is the generic Linux driver framework for paravirtualization. This provides a paravirtualized network & disk driver. > I.e., is the plan to make KVM not suck on machines that do not have > Vanderpool/Pacifica, or are those simply out of luck with xen gone? Unlikely to happen. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
