On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Chuck Munro <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/22/2013 03:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> >> On 22/01/13 07:34, Chuck Munro wrote: >>> >>> - I tried to use the Virtio flavor of disk, but the BSD-based VMs can't >>> use them, so I had to stay with IDE disk emulation. >> >> >> Depending on the BSD flavour, of course, but FreeBSD 8.2+ and 9 have >> virtio support ... >> >> <http://www.area536.com/projects/freebsd-as-a-kvm-guest-using-virtio/> >> <http://people.freebsd.org/~kuriyama/virtio/> >> >> I believe there are some ongoing work for virtio support in both OpenBSD >> and NetBSD as well. But that's also all I know. >> >> -- >> kind regards, >> >> David Sommerseth >> > > Many thanks for the info, David. Very useful.
> As it happens, I'm testing with multiple instances of m0n0wall, which is > based on FreeBSD v6. I also have an instance of pfSense 2.0.2, which is > based on FreeBSD 8.1, so I guess I'm out of luck until m0n0wall moves to > v8.3 (in beta) and pfSense moves to v9 with rev.2.1. That explains the > problem with Virtio. Do you have any compelling reason to use IDE based emulation, instead of SCSI? > Meanwhile, I tested an instance of Linux-based IPCop, which did use a Virtio > disk, but still had the problem of writes once per second. It's as if > libvirtd does a sync every second, and there's some sort of data being > written each time. Very strange. I just discovered the linux-kvm.org > forum, so I probably should post my question there. > > Chuck
