On Apr 24, 2013 2:29 AM, "Tanstaafl" <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > > On 2013-04-22 8:56 AM, Andre Lucas Falco <alfa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2013/4/21 Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: >>> >>> Windows VMs see get an 'LSI Logic SAS', and my gentoo VM gets an >>> 'LSI Logic Parallel' controller. > > >> Did you tested using pvscsi? It's improve performance with less cost to >> CPU usage. > > > No, I didn't... > > It appears there is pvscsi support in the mainline linux kernel, but is it rock-solid? Anyone else here running gentoo linux with this driver for their primary/boot disk controller? > > Also, for my windows server 2008r2 vms, I used the default, which was the LSI SAS... I did search and found the knowledgebase article describing how to change them, but is the gain really worth the trouble (and more importantly, the risk)? >
My Gentoo VMs in the cloud (using VMware's vCloud) uses PV-SCSI. It's stable... but kind of sensitive: Everytime the cloud provider do something with their storage, my VMs become Read-Only. Other than that, performance is good, no fs corruption, etc. Rgds, --
