[rhelv6-list] App install in RHEL6 KVM physical host

[Thomas Cameron]

On 02/23/2012 03:30 AM, hai wu wrote:
> This is not about RHEV, just plain KVM.
>
> Are there any concerns when installing heavy app in RHEL6 KVM physical
> host?

There are considerations, of course. You can get as granular or as broad 
with tuning as you like. You can do things like use numactl and cpu 
pinning and control groups and sriov to really drive as much performance 
to the VM as possible. You want to do things like use virtio instead IDE 
for storage and network, things like that.

Without more info about what you are going to do, it's really hard to 
give you a real recommendation. What is the workload you're thinking of 
virtualizing?

I've got one customer who is running numerous Windows 2008R2 machines 
running workloads from file and print to Exchange to Sharepoint as KVM 
guests, and it's working just fine.

TC