Jason L. Froebe – Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

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Comparing Linux huge memory pages & Kernel Samepage Merging for KVM virtualization

by Jason L Froebe on April 7, 2011, no comments

A quick test (so take it with a grain of salt): Huge pages is slightly faster than not using huge pages (~10% with 4 winxp virtual machines copying 512MB from one memory location to another). KSM is slightly slower then not using KSM (~5% with 4 winxp virtual machines copying 512MB from one memory location [...]

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Proxmox VE 1.8 and KVM: Adding sound to your virtual machines!

by Jason L Froebe on April 7, 2011, 2 comments

This assumes that your host machine has a sound card! Add the args line in your /etc/qemu-server/<vm id>.conf file should give you sound: args: -soundhw On my Proxmox VE 1.8, I have several virtual audio devices available.   I’ve had the best luck with ac97 with Windows XP/Vista and Win7. red:/etc/qemu-server# kvm -soundhw ‘?’ Valid sound [...]

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