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.

The option of using a vncserver with your KVM virtual machine allows for running your virtual machine “headless”.

One of the benefits of the qemu/kvm model is management of the qemu process using linux userspace utilities as qemu runs in userspace as a normal linux process.

KVM developers released the first update of the windows paravirtual network drivers a few days ago so I think a post is warranted in documenting the upgrade procedure.