In this post I’ll walk through the procedure for using vmware’s vga driver with your kvm windows guests along with a download for testing.

In this post I’ll walk through building the spice library and qemu-spice using RFC patches recently submitted.

Bridged networking configuration with virt-manager 0.8.3 has become much simpler compared to earlier versions.

If you use Amazon’s EC2 service and are thinking of migrating your virtual machines to KVM, there’s a howto tutorial available at layerboom’s website.

In previous posts you can find instructions on how to configure bridged networking when managing your kvm guests by command line.

Support for hugetlbfs was added with the release of kvm-62 and it can give your kvm guest machine a performance boost anywhere up to 10%.

There’s an installer available for windows virtio network drivers that can be downloaded from the kvm wiki site which makes installation of your windows paravirtual network drivers a bit sim

There are some useful ways in which you can use qemu base images to build template virtual machines. If used wisely you can save yourself from ever having to install the same OS more than once.

Here’s a quick and simple way to share files on your linux host with a windows guest using samba.

I recently received an email from Dr. David P. Reed with an interesting observation; high wakeup rates for an idle kvm windows xp guest machine measured using the powertop utility.