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On 04/22/2013 03:04 PM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: |
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> Regarding devices which devices qemu-kvm supports, just take a look at |
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> following commands: |
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> Available net devices: |
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> qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic,model=? |
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> Available cpu's: |
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> qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ? |
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> Available machines (if needed) |
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> qemu-system-x86_64 -machine ? |
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> General list of available devices: |
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> qemu-system-x86_64 -device ? |
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> Depending on your arch it might differ.. |
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> Regarding virito devices: |
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> I highly recommend using those drivers. For my gentoo guests i always |
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> use virtio drivers for network devices (with vhost=on) and harddisks. |
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> (on windows guests only virito-net drivers) The performance gain is |
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> incredible. However, especially for the virtio harddisk driver, make |
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> sure you change fstab entries, because harddisk names change from sda to |
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> vda (or just use them from the beginning. |
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> If you going to try out desktop vm's too i also recommend qxl with |
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> spice. It's really fast and it also supports copy/paste (however you |
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> need an service for copy/paste on linux "app-emulation/spice-vdagent") |
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> and window resizing. Those features also work on windows. |
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Good to know. Does it work over the network, or does it presume local |
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connectivity? My primary use case is connecting to the box over |
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wireless. My secondary use case is connecting over a WAN link. Local |
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connectivity is out of the question for this VM server. |
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> Regarding libvirt my experience is actually very low since i setup my |
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> vms with an custom init script. You can take a look on it here: |
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> https://github.com/mm1ke/qemu-init/tree/devel |
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I'm actually not having any real difficulty setting up the VMs. As I |
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said, the matter is largely academic. It's really not difficult to set |
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up a guest primarily with virtio drivers, of course. |
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The "problem" I'm trying to solve is the apparent lack of documentation |
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mapping host kvm/qemu capabilities with guest kernel configurations |
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> I can also provide a basic kernel .config for the latest stable kernel |
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> on x64 and x86 if you are interrested. |
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Like Stefan, I'm also curious. I would probably go through and tweak a |
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number of network-related features (add a netfilter feature here, remove |
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a network stack component there), but it'd be interesting to look at. |
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