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
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