Re: [Xen-devel] Question about VirtIO on Xen - Disk performance issues

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 14:09 +0100, Luca Tongiani wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I'm writing you this mail for asking some advice about a great problem 

This sort of question is on topic for xen-users@, but since it is not a
development question not for xen-devel@. I've moved the To line over and am
bccing the dev list.

Also please do not post HTML.


> i'm havin in running a Windows VM (HVM) onto a Xen (Gentoo based)
> Hypevisor.
> 
> I need to achieve maximum performance from this VM because of intense SQL
> tasks running in it.
> 
> I've seen good improvement in IO on disk using VirtIO on a Windows VM
> onto a QEMU (QNAP) hypervisor, and i'm tryin to use this feature also on
> my Xen HV.
> Is VirtIO disk a good way to improve performance?

Please seeÂhttp://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/windows-pv-drivers.ht
mlÂfor Xen PV drivers for Windows, which is Xen's equivalent to virtio.

Ian.

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