On 07/07/2012 02:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
<[email protected]> 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.
Oh, you're backing up the *virtual images*. No wonder you're having
adventures, anything that writes to the disks from the active guest is
wending its way from the guest, through *its* file systems and
caching, through the *KVM server's* hosts filesystems and caching, all
the way to disk.
I am going to have to work on my technical writing. Apparently,
I did not make it clear that I have my VM's off when I do my backups.
It is when XP's VM has previously run that I have a problem.
And, KVM is now off the hook, because, I am doing a backup and I
have not fired off a single VM this boot cycle, and ...
DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sat Jul 7 22:59:37 2012
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: 1.19% done at 11362 kB/s, finished in 6:56
DUMP: 2.62% done at 12559 kB/s, finished in 6:11
DUMP: 4.05% done at 12953 kB/s, finished in 5:54
It is doing its five times slower thing. I wonder if there is something
coincidentally I do that is causing the slowdown that
I typically do it when I am running XP, maybe like listen to
music while I work, or something else.
I am going to have to pay close attention to what I have run
on the Linux side when I have XP up.
The game is a foot!
-T
