Sergej Kandyla wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: >> >>> Dear All >>> I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you >>> please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this >>> purpose ? >>> Thank you >>> >> yum install kvm >> >> Then search for virtio drivers. Redhat provides virtio block drivers for >> Windows Vista, 7, 2008. >> > What benefits may provide me the virtio drivers ? They make use of the paravirtualized virtio framework which is orders of magnitude faster than fully virtualized i/o. > Also what suggestions do you have about running win2k3, win2k8 server > as a guests on CentOS5 kvm host ? Well, somebody said use AMD cpus because they are more stable but I have never managed to get that validated. > I'm interesting about disk organization for guest OS at first. If you need performance, you need paravirtualized i/o. With a kvm solution, that means going through virtio. I think Xen has its own solution to this and other than this, I know nothing about vmware and virtualbox on this score.