[Qemu-discuss] Best Intel hardware for qemu

2019-04-10 Thread Lars Bonnesen
So I am coming from the VMware world (with comprehensive compatibillity lists) but about to start a project with KVM/Qemu and I would like to setup an inexpensive test setup for this purpose. I am thinking of buying one of SuperMicros IoT-servers like https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/Min

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Best Intel hardware for qemu

2019-04-10 Thread Lars Bonnesen
lation and without > weird bugs. There are no (official) compatibility lists for this, it's > still mostly trial and error... > > Regards > Friedrich > > On 4/10/19 2:26 PM, Lars Bonnesen wrote: > > So I am coming from the VMware world (with comprehensive compatibill

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Best Intel hardware for qemu

2019-04-10 Thread Lars Bonnesen
sions have the ability to do this at a > hardware-independent level like VMWare does (VM sends standard > SCSI requests to qemu virtual SCSI adapter, qemu sends those > same SCSI requests to real SCSI hardware via something like the > Linux "SCSI generic" driver, optionally ma

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Best Intel hardware for qemu

2019-04-10 Thread Lars Bonnesen
; another virtual disk storage format. > > But if you want to pass through an entire PCI disk controller (with all > its disks) for faster I/O, then VFIO is needed. > > On 10/04/2019 20:40, Lars Bonnesen wrote: > > I want to pass local disks to a VM in order to run freenas or