<div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Hi there!</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Although the guest has 2GB memory, the windows guest was adjusted to support this.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I guess that the LVM is the best choice! I will save all images to other disk and re-build the partition with LVM. Do you recomend to use ext4 or zfs ?</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">- About the apparmor, I have my doubts, I will try to disable and see what will happen!</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">- About the tablet input device, I removed! Some forums say that consuming idle cpu time.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">- About the guest agent, I have installed, but the first service can´t start! </font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The error says: <i>A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the QEMU Guest Agent service to connect.<br></i></font><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_154ce3dbc24bb6d7" alt="Imagem inline 1" width="474" height="30"><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I´m using the <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">virtio-win-0.1.117.iso, but I don´t know if this is updated.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thanks for your reply and your help!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thiago Oliveira</font></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-20 8:31 GMT-03:00 Dominique Ramaekers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dominique.ramaekers@cometal.be" target="_blank">dominique.ramaekers@cometal.be</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="NL-BE" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Please check virtual memory usage in the guest. 2Gb memory is very low. I think your Windows guest is ‘swapping’ constantly. This combined with the less performant qcow format… Reading and writing to qcow takes up host cpu…<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I don’t go under 3,5Gb for Windows Guests…<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tip: Take the time to learn LVM. Changing from an image file to LVM really pays off. I have a virtual host with RAID10 local storage. Changing to LVM gave me more than 25% performance boost.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">For the rest, it seems ok.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Less important:<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I have disabled apparmor security. This was done while using an older version of virsh and I had trouble with apparmor. I don’t know if apparmor has big performance influence.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Wasn’t there a tablet input device? Did you delete this device? I think it’s better to leave it. It has something to do with mouse usage in virt-viewer or vnc…<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Install the guest agent on the guest and insert the needed XML-directives. It gives you more possibilities managing your guest like a backup with external snapshots.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.75pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <div style="border-style:none none none solid;border-left-width:1.5pt;border-left-color:blue;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt"> <div> <div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Van:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Thiago Oliveira [mailto:<a href="mailto:cpv.thiago@gmail.com" target="_blank">cpv.thiago@gmail.com</a>] <br> <b>Verzonden:</b> vrijdag 20 mei 2016 13:07<br> <b>Aa</b></span><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">n:</span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Dominique Ramaekers<br> <b>CC:</b> <a href="mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users@redhat.com</a><br> <b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM<u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Hi there!<u></u><u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Sure......see below.<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"># virsh version<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Compiled against library: libvirt 1.3.1<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Using library: libvirt 1.3.1<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Using API: QEMU 1.3.1<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.5.0<u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"># uname -a<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Linux 4.4.0-22-generic #40-Ubuntu 16<u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><domain type='kvm' id='8'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <name>W2k8</name><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <uuid>a148a0b7-eefb-9a5b-8e83-8efaf19f9899</uuid><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <description>None</description><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <resource><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <partition>/machine</partition><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </resource><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <os><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-trusty'>hvm</type><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <boot dev='hd'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <boot dev='cdrom'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <bootmenu enable='yes'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </os><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <features><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <acpi/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <apic/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <pae/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </features><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </cpu><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <clock offset='localtime'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <on_crash>restart</on_crash><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <devices><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm-spice</emulator><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <disk type='file' device='disk'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' io='native'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <source file='/mnt/VM_SAS/w2k8.img'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <backingStore/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='virtio-disk0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </disk><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <disk type='file' device='disk'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <source file='/mnt/VM_SAS/second_HD.raw'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <backingStore/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='virtio-disk1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </disk><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <backingStore/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <target dev='hda' bus='ide' tray='open'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <readonly/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='ide0-1-1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </disk><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='pci.0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </controller><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <controller type='ide' index='0'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='ide'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </controller><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <controller type='usb' index='0'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='usb'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </controller><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <interface type='network'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <mac address='52:54:00:c3:c9:f3'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <source network='network_win' bridge='virbr0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <target dev='vnet1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <model type='virtio'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='net0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </interface><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <serial type='pty'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <source path='/dev/pts/1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <target port='0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='serial0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </serial><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <source path='/dev/pts/1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <target type='serial' port='0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='serial0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </console><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <graphics type='vnc' port='5901' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </graphics><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <video><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <model type='cirrus' vram='16384' heads='1'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='video0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </video><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <memballoon model='virtio'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <alias name='balloon0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </memballoon><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </devices><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <seclabel type='dynamic' model='apparmor' relabel='yes'><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <label>libvirt-a148a0b7-eefb-9a5b-8e83-8efaf19f9899</label><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <imagelabel>libvirt-a148a0b7-eefb-9a5b-8e83-8efaf19f9899</imagelabel><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </seclabel><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"></domain><u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">2016-05-20 3:57 GMT-03:00 Dominique Ramaekers <<a href="mailto:dominique.ramaekers@cometal.be" target="_blank">dominique.ramaekers@cometal.be</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p> <div style="border-style:none none none solid;border-left-width:1.5pt;border-left-color:blue;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt"> <div> <div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Van:</span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>] <b>Namens </b>Thiago Oliveira<br> <b>Verzonden:</b> vrijdag 20 mei 2016 4:09<br> <b>Aan:</b> <a href="mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users@redhat.com</a><br> <b>Onderwerp:</b> [libvirt-users] Windows Server 2008 - KVM</span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Hi folks!</span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">When I start the Windows Server 2008 guest, the host cpu grown up the utilization and the host load average too. Are there some tips to use Windows Server with libvirt?</span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Thanks,</span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Thiago</span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Could you send the XML and the result of ‘virsh version’?</span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>