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...drive, because it is simply faster. This small how-to is about how to make a disk para-virtualized and boot from it. # create a disk and install os to it by appending "-hda <your_disk_image>" to your vir

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Modern processors come with a wide variety of performance enhancing features such as streaming instructio ...its cpu features unchanged. This is great for compatibility but comes at a performance cost.

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* A VT capable Intel processor, or an SVM capable AMD processor On a debian etch system you can install the prerequisites with:

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A functional KVM system consists of three main components: KVM requires a few kernel modules in order to support full virtualization. Most distributi

...o a separate page and linked it on the front-site. I think there should be a link on the left site, not on the front-site. --[[User:Cberendt|Cberendt]] ...d the book "qemu-kvm & libvirt", but the link seems to be broken. Is there a reliable source for this book one can point the link to?

...command line options, QMP, etc.). Use the source of this page to populate a new one for the new feature, and then add the info. ..., any tips on helping to narrow down the problems to this subsystem? e.g. A minimal command line that reproduces is always helpful.

* [http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6503/1/ Linux as a hypervisor] at Linux Planet * [[Memory|How KVM deals with memory]] - a look inside how KVM interacts with the Linux VM.

...code is available through a git tree (like the kernel itself). To create a repository using git, type [http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm.git;a=summary]

...To share host files w/ the guest, we use 9p over virtio in conjunction w/ a filesystem device exporting the portion of the host filesystem that we'd li ...eate a 9pvirtio device exposing the mount_tag <code>hostshare</code> (just a name to identify the mount point). That device is coupled to an fsdev name

The Mac Pro is a great home server machine - twin quad core Xeons, plenty of memory capabili It would seem that there is a special set of registers on Intel processors called the MSR (manufacturs sp

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...back. Naturally, a 64-bit guest can only be migrated to a 64-bit host, but a 32-bit guest can be migrated at will. ...s NX-supporting hosts. To disable NX for a given guest, start it with such a parameter: -cpu qemu64,-nx

CPU hotplug is a controverse feature. It exists on qemu-kvm for it should involve a windows-specific driver (to be written)

...rvisor part, especially how to unplug, re-plug the SR-IOV device still has a lot of open questions. ...are two ways of orchestrating datapath switching in case of (for example) a migration.

...San Diego, CA, August 29-31. The Virtualization Micro Conference included a number of presentations relevant for KVM.

...development project from 2013 that was never completed. It is left here as a historical record. The feature described does not exist in any currently sh ...size is greater than what the host has physically available. For example, a 2G host running two VMs each with 2G would be over-committed.

* [[NetConsole| set up a network console]] * [[HowToConfigScript|Configuration Script for KVM]] - a complete management utility, configuration file format, and init script.