2009/2/25 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>: > Alpár Török schrieb: >> >> 2009/2/25 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> Alpár Török schrieb: >>> >>>>> Indeed virtio performs better than e1000. >>>>> It should work, please provide host kernel version, kvm version, virtio >>>>> net >>>>> version and >>>>> windows guest type. Also the cmdline and monitor command will help. >>>> >>>> kernel is 2.6.25.16-0.1-default of openSuse 11.0 >>>> KVM version is 63-31.1 (also shipped with the distribution) >>> >>> This is pretty ancient version - could you try kvm-84 to see if it solves >>> your problems? >> >> Yes, just to see if it works is not a problem. But i have many >> machines, compiling for each of them would be unpractical, perhaps i >> can make a new kernel rpm and install that for the other VMs, with the >> latest KVM compiled in, if there's no other option i will try that, to >> see if it solves the problems. Is there anything else that slipped my >> mind, that would allow me to update kvm on all machines? I knew that >> the version shipped with the distribution is old, but i went with it >> for convenience of installation . > > If you don't want to compile a new kernel and make a package. > > You can compile KVM to work with your old kernel. > > Then, distribute kernel modules (3 files) and kvm/qemu binary (4th file) > with rsync, done. > Still, you will have to stop virtual machines, remove/insert kvm modules, > start the guests. Stopping guests isn't a problem. i will try this on one machine, to see if there are any improvements and post back. On a second thought. Where can i find the pv block drivers for XP ? > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > -- Alpar Torok -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
