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5th January 2018

Configuring Hugepages to use in a virtual machine

Hugepages are an optional step during the VM configuration; it increases the RAM performance of the virtual machine. The downside is that the RAM allocated to the hugepages can not be used in the horst system, even if the guest isn’t running. The minimum size should be not smaller then 4GB. Check if hugepages are […]

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4th January 2018

Different ethernet setups for virtual machines

Still in draft: – using bridge device * -> easiest, fastest and most convenient way, but requires wired connection. – using network tap – using host mode libvirt’s default setup where the VM host more or less acts like a NAT router for all the virtual machines running on it. This works out of the […]

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4th January 2018

Storage setup for virtual machines

There are several storage solutions for a KVM/QEMU virtual machine. Use a raw image container file This is pretty easy to accomplish with a reasonable performance results.In order to use the maximum amount of an 120GB SSD. I created a raw image file (.img) on it, via:fallocate -l 111G /media/vm/win10.img Add the image container as […]

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