Re: Calling FC 16 Virtualization experts!

2012-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:33:48 -0400 Digimer wrote: > KVM with the virtio disk bus should be fine. The default disk cache algorithm with virtio is horrible. I forget which algorithm is which, but changing the cache setting took me from 10 hours to write a large file over virtio to 10 minutes to wri

Re: Calling FC 16 Virtualization experts!

2012-07-12 Thread Digimer
On 07/12/2012 12:15 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > Hi FC folks, > > I am setting up a FC 16 workstation and need a VM to load XP (sic) for > outlook access. > > Looking at virtualization options. > > I find the default of qemu has worked for me before, but the chart of > options suggests the qemu perfo

Calling FC 16 Virtualization experts!

2012-07-12 Thread Jack Craig
Hi FC folks, I am setting up a FC 16 workstation and need a VM to load XP (sic) for outlook access. Looking at virtualization options. I find the default of qemu has worked for me before, but the chart of options suggests the qemu performance isn't that great. conversely, XEN & KVM look like go