Il 31/10/2012 17:05, Alexander Graf ha scritto: > That's the same reasoning that we used for cache=writethrough. It > just plain sucks. Why can't we just drop Windows XP from the out of > box experience and get everyone to at least 80% performance, rather > than having a compatible, but completely useless VM.
And a few years later we did change the default. 1.2 uses writeback by default. Really, the solution is a proper UI that says "XP? IDE is that direction. 2k8? AHCI is that direction. Linux? virtio be it" and does it automatically for the user. Paolo
