On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:18:06PM -0500, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
Hello all,
I have a PowerEdge 2950 that I am using to host Windows XP VM's under
CentOS. I am experiencing poor performance in the Xen VM's. Any time I
try to do something, the CPU usage (as reported by the Windows task
Ryan Pugatch wrote:
So I take it you're not using PV-on-HVM drivers in Windows.. ie.
windows is using the emulated NIC and IDE disk?
That will be slow.
You need to use PV drivers. See GPLPV drivers:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv/
http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/
compdoc wrote:
If you have only one network card in the server, you should
add more. 32 computers (vms) sharing one card is only one
bottleneck your system has. Another would be using a file to
run the vm from, rather than a block device.
Is it possible to migrate from a block device to
Hi, all,
I'm attempting to run a Windows 2003 (32-bit) VM under CentOS 5.4,
generally following:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM
I've seen nice performance benefits with the VirtIO driver under Fedora,
so I'd like to get that running with CentOS as well. I have the
September drivers
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 12:31 -0500, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
compdoc wrote:
If you have only one network card in the server, you should
add more. 32 computers (vms) sharing one card is only one
bottleneck your system has. Another would be using a file to
run the vm from, rather than a
Bill McGonigle wrote:
Hi, all,
I'm attempting to run a Windows 2003 (32-bit) VM under CentOS 5.4,
generally following:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM
ARGHH ... forget that page as it was written during the first kvm tests
and ïsn't current anymore
see
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:37:02AM -0500, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
Eric Searcy wrote:
The install worked beautifully except that my VM now has an ip assigned
of 192.168.122.186 which I'm guessing is in relation to virbr0 which is
192.168.122.1 on the host (and subsequently has no internet
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Oh, one more thing.. is it only the guest VM taking cpu time
when you monitor with xm top?
Do you have the latest service packs installed in the guest?
Have you tried monitoring the performance from inside the guest,
to figure out what takes cpu time there?
On 01/21/2010 04:08 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
The standard kvm from 5.4 and not the*old* one from extras
Hrm, this is probably where I'm going wrong. I have kvm -36 from
-extras (which bails if you specify a virtio type device). I'm not
seeing kvm in the repos for 5.4 or updates/5.4 on
On 01/21/2010 10:59 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 01/21/2010 04:08 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
The standard kvm from 5.4 and not the*old* one from extras
Hrm, this is probably where I'm going wrong. I have kvm -36 from
-extras (which bails if you specify a virtio type device). I'm not
seeing
On 01/21/2010 07:01 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Has anyone tried building the kvm packages shipped by redhat on i386 ?
apart from the spec file, are there any other changes required ?
I'm working on this right now but running into missing packages as seen
here:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote:
On 01/21/2010 07:01 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Has anyone tried building the kvm packages shipped by redhat on i386 ?
apart from the spec file, are there any other changes required ?
I'm working on this right now but
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