I have a Win2K3 VM hosted by a KVM hypervisor. In the Linux host I have 2 Linux partitions type ID=83 (eg: /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5) that I've allocated to the Win2K3 VM as virtual disks. The Windows guest took care…
How to choose the right kernel I/O scheduler
I was searching for a way to improve my system responsiveness knowing that I/O is a major factor that can influence this. Yes, I can change my HDD with a affordable SSD but I was looking for something that would…
Move KVM guest from lvm to an external USB disk/image file
I have a KVM Windows Vista guest whose virtual disk is a volume on a physical disk I have on my server (eg: /dev/VG/lvm_guest-name). The volume is about 80GB, but the space that is really used is about 30GB. My…