[libvirt-users] VM Performance using KVM Vs. VMware ESXi

[Jatin Davey]

On 4/14/2015 6:32 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 14/04/15 13:33, Jatin Davey wrote:
>
>> Thanks Dominique & Daniel.
>>
>> Looks like i need to upgrade my VMs kernel to make it aware of virtio.
>>
>> Found this information from this link:
>>
>> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio#Disk_.28block.29_device_driver
>>
>> I tried without upgrading the Kernel and as soon as i start my VM it got
>> into Kernel Panic. I will try using virtio after upgrading my VMs 
>> kernel.
>
> As somebody has already said it would have to be a really old kernel 
> to not handle virtio-block, and it's more likely that your bootloader 
> and/or initrd are confused by sda becoming vda.
>
> However if your kernel supports it then virtio-scsi should be even 
> better than virtio-block and shouldn't cause the device name to change.
>
> Tom
>
My VM is using the kernel 2.6.18-164.el5

[root at localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Should this be fine ?

Thanks
Jatin