I have always been a big fan of Hyper-V, and was actually a Virtualization MVP 2 years in a row. However recently I haven’t been able to get past the really poor support for Linux on the Hyper-V platform. We run a large number of hypervisors in our international sales…
KVM Guests: Install VirtIO Drivers for Windows Guests
Windows guests on the KVM hypervisors can get a very large kick in the pants when it comes to performance if you install the drivers necessary to leverage the VirtIO bus. So first here are the necessary download links so that you can download the drivers. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-1.1.16.iso http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ Inside of…
Linux-KVM: Managing KVM Guests Using Virt-Manager on Windows
When I first started using KVM, I was quite disappointed with the graphical management abilities of KVM. Basically if you want to manage via the command line KVM is a fantasical dream world where anything is possible and it is all “musical sunshine” and “double rainbows” but if you want…
Linux-KVM: Managing Disk Images
Disk images have long been the traditional form of storage for virtualized environments, they are essentially containers in the form of a file on the host’s file system. These files can be either fully allocated or sparsely allocated at time of disk creation, a fully allocated 20GB disk image will…
KVM Guests: Manipulating Libvirt XML for Guest Creation
Today we are going to discuss using the underlying XML which libvirt uses to define a VM to either create VMs or to make simple changes. This method has the advantage of more control over what you are creating, although it is more manual. Now first off, when you use…