Re: Anyone use PG with kvm/virtio? Any gotchas or recommended settings?

Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:05:29 -0800

I'm using it with Fedora14 inside the VM.  No problems, although we've
only been using it for a few months.  You sure that your host HW isn't
at fault?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, bubba postgres
<bubba.postgres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Looks like the recommended settings are using the virtio interface,
> cache=none, and raw partitions (not qcow2).
> Anyone else run into any problems with kvm or virtio?
>
> We currently have a setup using qcow2, virtio, and the default cache
> settings, and experienced some data corruption (not preceded by crashes or
> restarts of postgres), and we are wondering if that might be the culprit.
>
>
>

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