Mr. X wrote: > > --- On Tue, 1/5/10, Christopher Chan <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > >> From: Christopher Chan <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] kvm and virto on Centos 5.4 >> To: centos@centos.org >> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 10:03 PM >> Hello Steve, >> >> S.Tindall wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 10:48 +0800, Christopher Chan >> wrote: >>>> I have not tried kvm on Centos 5.4 yet...does >> anyone know if it has >>>> support for virtio? >>> Yes, it does. >>> >> Thanks for the confirmation. Now I can feel free to stick a >> Windows 2008 >> server on a Centos 5.4 box. >> > > Ideally you want bridged networking for KVM, especially with a guest > like Win2k8.
Already doing bridged networking for Windows XP guests. > > KVM by itself will not install a supporting br0 device. However Xen will. > Unless you want to spend anywhere from 20min-2hours cooking up a DIY br0 > install, install Xen no matter if you never intend to use it. Huh? Where did you get that from? I used bridged networking with KVM on Ubuntu. > > KVM is meant to be used with Virt-manager although you can run qemu-kvm in > its own console. > > Your success with KVM has a lot to do with your hardware. Intel (vmx) far and > away has more bugs than AMD (svx) for some new guests like Win7 and Win2k8. > Google around for kvm or Xen crashes (in Win2k8) for your intended CPU if it > is an Intel vmx type. Glad I always root for AMD. I will be getting an Opteron box for this. I guess things have not changed much when it comes to Intel buggy chips. > > KVM is faster than qemu with kqemu-kernel and I've only come across one bug : > the -usbdevice feature will not work in KVM but it works with qemu/kqemu. > I have not tried USB passthrough (I think that is what you are talking about...) so no comment. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
