Hi,

I'm experiencing bad disk I/O performance using virtio disks.

I'm using Linux 2.6.29 (host & guest), kvm 84 userspace.
On the host, and in a non-virtio guest, I get ~120 MB/s when writing
with dd (the disks are fast RAID0 SAS disks).

In a guest with a virtio disk, I get at most ~32 MB/s.

The rest of the setup is the same. For reference, I'm running kvm -drive
file=/tmp/debian-amd64.img,if=virtio.

Is such performance expected? What should I check?

Thank you,
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