Re: [libvirt] Qemu/KVM is 3x slower under libvirt (due to vhost=on)
On 09/28/11 11:53, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:49:01AM +0200, Reeted wrote:
> YES!
> It's the vhost. With vhost=on it takes about 12 seconds more time to boot.
>
> ...meaning? :-)
I've no idea. I was always under the impression that 'vhost=on' was
the 'make it go much faster' switch. So something is going wrong
here that I cna't explain.
Perhaps one of the network people on this list can explain...
To turn vhost off in the libvirt XML, you should be able to use
<driver name='qemu'/> for the interface in question,eg
<interface type='user'>
<mac address='52:54:00:e5:48:58'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<driver name='qemu'/>
</interface>
Ok that seems to work: it removes the vhost part in the virsh launch
hence cutting down 12secs of boot time.
If nobody comes out with an explanation of why, I will open another
thread on the kvm list for this. I would probably need to test disk
performance on vhost=on to see if it degrades or it's for another reason
that boot time is increased.
Thanks so much for your help Daniel,
Reeted