From c4c8348dff35ea0c09b3321a2e8f7fcea8659068 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lunar Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:26:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Use virtio for disk in KVM instead of emulating real hardware This should improve I/O performance. --- libexec/start-target | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libexec/start-target b/libexec/start-target index 95376cc..467ed63 100755 --- a/libexec/start-target +++ b/libexec/start-target @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ case $VMSW in [ -n "$KVM" ] || KVM=qemu-system-x86_64 ;; esac - $KVM -enable-kvm -m ${VMEM:-2000} -smp ${NPROCS:-2} -drive file=target-$SUFFIX.qcow2,cache=writeback -net nic,model=virtio -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:$VM_SSH_PORT-:22 -vnc 127.0.0.1:16 > var/target.log 2>&1 & + $KVM -enable-kvm -m ${VMEM:-2000} -smp ${NPROCS:-2} -drive file=target-$SUFFIX.qcow2,cache=writeback,if=virtio -net nic,model=virtio -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:$VM_SSH_PORT-:22 -vnc 127.0.0.1:16 > var/target.log 2>&1 & echo $! > var/target.pid wait rm var/target.pid