[libvirt-users] Sluggish performance with virtio and Win10
Martin Kletzander
mkletzan at redhat.com
Thu Feb 18 14:15:39 UTC 2016
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:59:52PM +0100, John Obaterspok wrote:
>2016-02-18 11:25 GMT+01:00 Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:41:42AM +0100, John Obaterspok wrote:
>>
>>> 2016-02-18 10:13 GMT+01:00 Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 08:49:38AM +0100, John Obaterspok wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using virt-manager on my F23 box to run a Windows 10 image but the
>>>>> performance is so bad it's killing me.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have "vmx" flag in /proc/cpuinfo
>>>>>
>>>>> # lsmod |grep kvm
>>>>> kvm_intel 167936 6
>>>>> kvm 503808 1 kvm_intel
>>>>>
>>>>> virtio-win-0.1.112-1.noarch
>>>>>
>>>>> But no virtio modules loaded. Should they be loaded nowadays?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Not on the host AFAIK.
>>>>
>>>> The disk format used is vmdk with no caching and native mode.
>>>>
>>>>> The io is 100% in windows task manager performing less than 1MB/s
>>>>>
>>>>> Any clues?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What are the figures from the host? What is qemu doing and what are the
>>>> other processes and devices doing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What is the best way to find this out?
>>>
>>>
>> {,a,h}top should do for the initial runs, just to see if the block layer
>> is busy or the CPU is busy or something else is blocking it
>>
>>
>atop seems to indicate that sdd is busy?
>
>DSK | sdd | busy 96% | | read 1455 | write
>1319 | KiB/r 5 | KiB/w 9 | | MBr/s 0.74 | MBw/s
> 1.26 | avq 1.01 | | avio 3.43 ms |
>
># mount | grep sdd
>/dev/sdd2 on /vm type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
>
And it doesn't do that in any other process on the host? It looks like
it's not related to virtualisation...
>
>guest configuration is below:
>
><domain type='kvm'>
> <name>win10-box</name>
> <uuid>d4a67adb-5d30-42f8-b8c6-d3c4598700f2</uuid>
> <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory>
> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>4194304</currentMemory>
> <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
> <os>
> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.4'>hvm</type>
> </os>
> <features>
> <acpi/>
> <apic/>
> <pae/>
> <hyperv>
> <relaxed state='on'/>
> <vapic state='on'/>
> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/>
> </hyperv>
> <kvm>
> <hidden state='on'/>
> </kvm>
> <vmport state='off'/>
> </features>
> <cpu mode='host-model'>
> <model fallback='allow'/>
> </cpu>
> <clock offset='localtime'>
> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>
> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>
> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/>
> </clock>
> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
> <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
> <pm>
> <suspend-to-mem enabled='no'/>
> <suspend-to-disk enabled='no'/>
> </pm>
> <devices>
> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
> <source file='/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.iso'/>
> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
> <readonly/>
> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
> </disk>
> <disk type='file' device='disk'>
> <driver name='qemu' type='vmdk' cache='none' io='native'/>
> <source file='/vm/storage/win10-box.img'/>
> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
> <boot order='1'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0a'
>function='0x0'/>
> </disk>
> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06'
>function='0x7'/>
> </controller>
> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'>
> <master startport='0'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06'
>function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
> </controller>
> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'>
> <master startport='2'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06'
>function='0x1'/>
> </controller>
> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'>
> <master startport='4'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06'
>function='0x2'/>
> </controller>
> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
> <controller type='ide' index='0'>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01'
>function='0x1'/>
> </controller>
> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05'
>function='0x0'/>
> </controller>
> <controller type='sata' index='0'>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08'
>function='0x0'/>
> </controller>
> <interface type='direct'>
> <mac address='52:54:00:cc:f0:31'/>
> <source dev='eno1' mode='bridge'/>
> <model type='virtio'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'
>function='0x0'/>
> </interface>
> <serial type='pty'>
> <target port='0'/>
> </serial>
> <console type='pty'>
> <target type='serial' port='0'/>
> </console>
> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/>
> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
> <graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'/>
> <sound model='ich6'>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04'
>function='0x0'/>
> </sound>
> <video>
> <model type='vga' vram='16384' heads='1'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02'
>function='0x0'/>
> </video>
> <memballoon model='virtio'>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07'
>function='0x0'/>
> </memballoon>
> </devices>
></domain>
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