Hello Luca,
the recommended way to increase disk performance would be to use Xen PV
disks. You just need to install the Windows PV drivers:
http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/windows-pv-drivers.html
But using VirtIO disk should also increase performance, even though
most probably not as much.
Cheers,
Stefano
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Luca Tongiani wrote:
Hi to all,
I'm writing you this mail for asking some advice about a great problem 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?
Thx in advance and hope to keep in touch
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