Enabling PARAVIRT stuff in Fedora kernels

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jul 9 03:53:37 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:25:31PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
 >  > I just tried the latest Fedora rawhide kernel
 >  > (2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.x86_64) in a kvm virtual machine, and I
 >  > noticed that it doesn't have all the paravirtual goodness available in
 >  > 2.6.26.  The cost of setting PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_CLOCK and
 >  > PARAVIRT_GUEST to 'y' is suposed to be pretty minimal on bare metal,
 >  > and it gives a nice boost running inside kvm.  Have you guys
 >  > considered turning on these options for Fedora kernels?
 > 
 > And actually the options I'm really hoping for are KVM_GUEST and
 > KVM_CLOCK -- sorry for my confusion and sloppy grep for "VIRT".

Umm, they're also all enabled.

	Dave

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