Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 22.04.2013 21:04, schrieb Michael Mair-Keimberger:

> Regarding virito devices:
> I highly recommend using those drivers. For my gentoo guests i always use
> virtio drivers for network devices (with vhost=on) and harddisks. (on
> windows guests only virito-net drivers) The performance gain is incredible.
> However, especially for the virtio harddisk driver, make sure you change
> fstab entries, because harddisk names change from sda to vda (or just
> use them from the beginning.
>
> If you going to try out desktop vm's too i also recommend qxl with spice.
> It's really fast and it also supports copy/paste (however you need an
> service for copy/paste on linux "app-emulation/spice-vdagent") and window
> resizing. Those features also work on windows.
>
> Regarding libvirt my experience is actually very low since i setup my vms
> with an custom init script. You can take a look on it here:
> https://github.com/mm1ke/qemu-init/tree/devel
>
> I can also provide a basic kernel .config for the latest stable kernel on x64
> and x86 if you are interrested.

I am interested ... ;-)

Put it up somewhere (dropbox, pastebin, whatever) and share the link if
you don't mind.

Thanks, Stefan