[libvirt-users] Windows 7 guest not starting with HyperV features enabled

2016-10-10 Thread Aleksei
Hi, I have a Windows 7 SP1 Pro 64-bit VM which works fine on libvirt 2.3.0 and Qemu 2.7.0. If I enable HyperV features (https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFeatures) like "relaxed", "spinlocks" etc - VM doesn't boot. "Starting Windows" text appears for ~2 seconds (no flying dots,

[libvirt-users] Dealing with swappiness on host systems

2016-10-10 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I'm looking for a way to prevent qemu processes on a libvirt host to use swap unless there is no physical memory free but apparently this is not as easy as I'd hoped it would be. This is on a CentOS 7 system. At first I tried setting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 1 (apparently setting it to 0 now