My question was probably not clear, I was asking for app install on top of kvm's 'DOM0' physical (not a right word here, similar to xen dom0), such as cpu intensive puppet app, then in kvm guest, we could put lightweight things like apache, ldap servers, etc..
On 2/23/12, Thomas Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/23/2012 03:30 AM, hai wu wrote: >> This is not about RHEV, just plain KVM. >> >> Are there any concerns when installing heavy app in RHEL6 KVM physical >> host? > > There are considerations, of course. You can get as granular or as broad > with tuning as you like. You can do things like use numactl and cpu > pinning and control groups and sriov to really drive as much performance > to the VM as possible. You want to do things like use virtio instead IDE > for storage and network, things like that. > > Without more info about what you are going to do, it's really hard to > give you a real recommendation. What is the workload you're thinking of > virtualizing? > > I've got one customer who is running numerous Windows 2008R2 machines > running workloads from file and print to Exchange to Sharepoint as KVM > guests, and it's working just fine. > > TC > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
