Enabling PARAVIRT stuff in Fedora kernels
Roland Dreier
roland at digitalvampire.org
Wed Jul 9 03:25:31 UTC 2008
> I just tried the latest Fedora rawhide kernel
> (2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.x86_64) in a kvm virtual machine, and I
> noticed that it doesn't have all the paravirtual goodness available in
> 2.6.26. The cost of setting PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_CLOCK and
> PARAVIRT_GUEST to 'y' is suposed to be pretty minimal on bare metal,
> and it gives a nice boost running inside kvm. Have you guys
> considered turning on these options for Fedora kernels?
And actually the options I'm really hoping for are KVM_GUEST and
KVM_CLOCK -- sorry for my confusion and sloppy grep for "VIRT".
Thanks,
Roland
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