To the best of my knowledge: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Ashish Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > KVM*: This too is a desktop solution. Basically uses qemu to virtualize, > however, the qemu-kvm module is 100 times faster than just the qemu module. > Again not many features, but good solution.
Although KVM can be deployed both on a server class as well as desktop class sytems, most deployments are on server class systems. Some of the big companies are betting their revenue stream on solutions based on KVM. Please visit the links in Rahul Sundaram's post in this thread. To me they look like mission critical deployments. > *Virtio*: I dont know. This is the kernel driver to optimize disk and network I/O for KVM. Comes native in Linux kernel. Therefore, for Linux Guest OS, one can have virtual disks and the NICs, with virtio drivers; it works out of the box. For Windows guest OS, you need to install the Windows virtio drivers to be able to see the HDD devices (no personal experience though). -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
