On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:20:35AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > 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? On the qemu side everything is in git HEAD now, but I'm not sure about the qemu-0.11 release as I haven't really followed it. For the guest kernel the virtio cache flush support is now in mainline (past-2.6.31). For the host kernel side about 2/3 of the fixes are now in mainline (past-2.6.31) with the others hopefully getting in this merge window. >> Is it safe to recommend virtio to newbies already? > > I think so. I wouldn't. At least not for people caring about their data. It will take a while to promote the guest side fixes to all the interesting guests. IDE has the major advantage that cache flush support has been around in the guest driver for a long time so we only need to fix the host side which is a lot easier. -- 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
