On 04/22/2013 05:40 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 22.04.2013 03:06, schrieb Michael Mol: >> So, I'm setting up number of kvm guests running Gentoo. KVM guests have >> a pretty limited set of device drivers they need to support. >> >> Is there a relatively up-to-date list of kernel configuration options? >> I.e. the list of NIC drivers, video drivers, I/O drivers... >> > > For net and io I always go with the virtio drivers [1]. For video: I > don't care, my VMs are all headless, but when creating a desktop VM I > suggest looking to vmvga or qxl. > > [1] http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio >
For video, I tend to use Cirrus. (I'll get the serial console stuff figured out eventually; I know how that works in the guest, but haven't prodded it in the host.) I didn't see a guest-side driver for vmvga, and I have no idea what qxl is. (I didn't hit search engines for it, I was merely searching around via menuconfig's / search.) Virtio drivers are awesome, of course. What I'm really looking for, though, is a list of all the devices the qemu/kvm host can emulate, and the most-specific guest driver. I.e. If I wanted to make a generic kernel configuration that contained the optimum drivers for all possible qemu/kvm configurations, what would be the minimum feature set? While I'm on the subject...menuconfig's search functionality indicated there was a vmguest-targeted CPU accounting in the kernel, but I couldn't get the HAVE_VIRTUAL_CPU_ACCOUNTING dependency flag set, and couldn't figure out what set it. Any ideas there?
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
