On 07/07/2012 01:38 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 07/07/2012 07:25 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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.
I am backing up the following:
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-xx 946513204 286868552 611564524 32% /
KVM, VM's are all just files on this partition.
Here is the report from the end of a backup I just finished -- includes
and entire backup (not incremental), compression and decryption:
DUMP: Volume 1 took 1:21:16
DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 47271 kB/s
DUMP: Volume 1 288102550kB uncompressed, 230493747kB compressed, 1.250:1
DUMP: 288102550 blocks (281350.15MB) on 1 volume(s)
DUMP: finished in 4876 seconds, throughput 59085 kBytes/sec
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jul 7 13:51:23 2012
DUMP: Date this dump completed: Sat Jul 7 15:12:44 2012
DUMP: Average transfer rate: 47271 kB/s
DUMP: Wrote 288102550kB uncompressed, 230493747kB compressed, 1.250:1
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
