On 04/22/2013 03:44 PM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > > > On Monday 22 April 2013 15:17:20 Michael Mol wrote: > >> On 04/22/2013 03:04 PM, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > >> > Regarding devices which devices qemu-kvm supports, just take a look at > >> > following commands: > >> > > >> > Available net devices: > >> > > >> > qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic,model=? > >> > > >> > Available cpu's: > >> > > >> > qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ? > >> > > >> > Available machines (if needed) > >> > > >> > qemu-system-x86_64 -machine ? > >> > > >> > General list of available devices: > >> > > >> > qemu-system-x86_64 -device ? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Depending on your arch it might differ.. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > 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. > >> > >> Good to know. Does it work over the network, or does it presume local > >> connectivity? My primary use case is connecting to the box over > >> wireless. My secondary use case is connecting over a WAN link. Local > >> connectivity is out of the question for this VM server. > > > > It works over the network. I have all my vms on a server and i only > access those vm's over network. As client i suggest net-misc/spice-gtk. > >> > >> > 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'm actually not having any real difficulty setting up the VMs. As I > >> said, the matter is largely academic. It's really not difficult to set > >> up a guest primarily with virtio drivers, of course. > >> > >> The "problem" I'm trying to solve is the apparent lack of documentation > >> mapping host kvm/qemu capabilities with guest kernel configurations > >> > >> > I can also provide a basic kernel .config for the latest stable kernel > >> > on x64 and x86 if you are interrested. > >> > >> Like Stefan, I'm also curious. I would probably go through and tweak a > >> number of network-related features (add a netfilter feature here, remove > >> a network stack component there), but it'd be interesting to look at. > > > > Below are both configs (kernel 3.7.10)(hope bpaste is ok). > > If you going to use them and don't use virtio-net make sure you enable > appropriate net drivers (e1000,rtl8129,..), because i've disabled all of > them. > > > > http://bpaste.net/show/93300/ > > http://bpaste.net/show/93301/
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