On 09/06/2020 22:52, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote:
Indeed. So wouldn't passing a block device from the host through to the
guest minimise the 'components' that are 'in the way'
I can' t help thinking that there must be something more behind a drop
from 60MB/s to 15MB/s in write performance
Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG wrote:
The more levels of indirection you have between any 2 components in a
system the slower stuff will move.
Indeed. So wouldn't passing a block device from the host through to the
guest minimise the 'components' that are 'in the way'
I can' t help thinking
On 2020-06-09 21:51, Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote:
What to conclude? Is the hardware just not fast enough? Are newer
processors better at abstracting the VM guests with less performance
impact? What am I missing??
The more levels of indirection you have between any 2 components in a
system the
Hi All,
While in lockdown I decided to do some performance testing on KVM. I had
believed that passing a block device through to a guest rather than
using a QCOW2 file would get better performance. I wanted to see whether
that was true and indeed whether using iSCSI storage was any
