Re: kvm tuning guide

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On 09/30/2009 07:09 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
"The default, IDE, is highly supported by guests but may be slow, especially with disk arrays. If your guest supports it, use the virtio interface:"
Avi,
what is the status of data integrity issues Chris Hellwig summarized some time ago?

I don't know.  Christoph?

Is it safe to recommend virtio to newbies already?

I think so.

Shouldn't SCSI
be safer (where applicable)?

SCSI suffers from being untested, and I think doesn't truly offer the parallelism it appears to.

nik


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:30:55PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
I wrote a short tuning guide for kvm,
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tuning_KVM.  It should all be well known
to the list, but a newbie is born every minute.  Please review and
expand!

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