On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:16 AM, David Sommerseth <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/2012 02:23 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> >>> > By the way, if you skip using AHCI and just program the bios >>> > for IDE, you don't even have to use an f6 disk to install XP. >>> > No sign of drivers doing XP in yet. Although the day will come. >>> > >>> > Great letter. Thank you! >> >> You didn't notice any performance issues with virtualized IDE versus SCSI? > > > IDE and SCSI emulation is not going to impress you on performance. Using > virtio for disk access may improve the performance, and the Windows drivers > should be available here:
David, I belive that Todd is using "dump" to back up the virtualization server, not the virtualization guests. The "dump" comman dwould be completely useless for a Windows partition, whether FAT32 or NTFS. > <http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers> Now, if you have to back up virtualized Windows *guest* hosts, that's a whole other set of adventures.
