Just had a few thoughts that could enhance the page (or possibly make it worse if I misunderstood linux aio. I imagine there's a reason why it was as hard to find as it was).
linux Asynchronous I/O (http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libaio/libaio_0.3.109.orig.tar.gz) I have not found a modern homepage for it (best I found was http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html), but it sounds like it can give a io boost to storage devices under qemu, when your storage devices is a partition. Also sounds like it can cause corruption when your storage device is a loopback image/file. Installed via make prefix=/usr install. Automatically detected by qemu, or manually enabled by --enable-linux-aio, and used by the client when you call -drive file=...,aio=native Note about possible corruption using aio=native on file disk images: https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/41313 (possibly more info then we want to cover on the page, but *shrug* can't hurt in this email. My actual recommendation is to provide a link to libaio as an optional dependency. If we add a note saying it can be activated with aio=native, I would also recommend mentioning that the user use it solely on actual partitions [which will be fine for a lvm based system, probably a headache otherwise]). For qemu-ifup and qemu-ifdown, we use >> (append) to create them. We could use > to create a new file instead (A user will get the same results if they run it multiple times, there are no benefits to appending to those files) Also there is the spice project, (which has given me more problems then it claims to solve so far [probably my fault]), which may be worth linking to. http://spice-space.org/. I think it can allow you to share clipboards, and provides a option for paravirtualized graphics [which is the part I was experimenting unsuccessfully with on a windows 64bit client] -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
