qemu

I've recently changed my server to run as a VM using KVM/QEMU via virt-manager. All has generally gone well, but I now want to make use of the machine's DVD writer from the VM. I've tried passing it through in the same way as I've passed through hard disks (but selecting CDROM and SCSI). That...

I'm looking to recruit support for my request to post (if it doesn't exist) or make more visible (if it does exist) a web page that lists the releases, their beta/stable status, and release notes with known issues of the VirtIO KVM Windows Guest drivers. If you agree, please go to this post and...

Problem Description: Many people using Promox (and other KVM/QEMU based hypervisors) on Jasper Lake platforms (N5105, N6005) are experiencing kernel panics and/or hangs of their guest VMs. Both Linux (OpenWRT, Ubuntu) and FreeBSD (pfSense, OPNsense) guest VMs are affected. The host itself...

Headlines are supposed to be dramatic and only half-truth, right :p After some talk on other threads about power-consumption, AMD, Intel and servers, I thought I'll get some real power numbers on the on-prem servers I usually setup at my customers. Some questioned the power numbers I've been...

I've decide to use mdadm RAID1(root) and RAID5(data) on my servers and my final choice of filesystem was EXT4 for both (did consider btrfs, XFS and ZFS, but looking at all pros/cons I ended up with EXT4). I've started wondering about a few things in regards to performance optimizing: Twice...

Hi everyone, So obviously Alpine is getting a lot of attention lately since Docker is popular, but it also has a plethora of packages commonly available in larger-footprint distros - namely KVM, libvirt and ZFS. It runs easily from RAM since it's so small, and is also unencumbered by systemd...

Apologies if this question does not below to this forum. I am running a small number of Windows 10 guests on libvirt-2.5 + qemu-2.7 + linux-4.8 with ZFS 0.6.5.8 . Disks of the guests are setup on ZFS zvols , for example disk C: of guest "lublin" ... <disk type='block' device='disk'>...