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How to Maximize virtio-net performance with vhost-net

Virtio-net paravirtual drivers provide you with better network performance than emulated drivers for your guests.

How to resize your kvm virtual disk

In this post I'll walk through the procedure for resizing your virtual disk in place without having to create a copy of it or performing any kind of cloning.

Using Vmware VGA with KVM Windows Guests

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.

Build SPICE library and experimental qemu spice server

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

Bridged Networking with Virt-Manager 0.8.3

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

Migrating your Virtual Machine from EC2 to KVM

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.

Using bridged networking with Virt-manager

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

Get a performance boost by backing your KVM guest with hugetlbfs

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%.

Using the Windows Installer for Paravirtual Network Drivers

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

How you can use qemu/kvm base images to be more productive (Part 1)

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.

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