Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

On 5.4.2011 21.49, compdoc wrote:

For reasons of speed and ease of maintenance and backups, what I've settled on is: a small separate drive for the host to boot from, a small separate drive for the guest OSes (I like using qcow2 on WD Raptors), and then a large array on a raid controller for storage which the guests and host can share access to.

Aren't the guests and host then competing for that large array? How is this arrangement better than other setups, for example having the host & each guest (with their associated data) each on their own disk, or partition?

- Jussi