[fedora-virt] Installing Windows 7 in a KVM?

[Cole Robinson]

On 03/05/2014 03:15 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:25:48 -0500
> Cole Robinson wrote:
> 
>> virt-manager will set optimal defaults here, so you shouldn't need to
> 
> Does that mean the default has changed? Because I remember
> measuring the time it took a program in an old Windows XP virtual
> machine to write a few gigabytes and the default disk mode
> virt-manager gave me took hours compared to minutes for some
> of the others (I just don't remember which ones were best :-).
> 

Yes, virt-manager encodes cache=none nowadays.

> Which reminds me of another irritant in virt-manager:
> 
> It calls the default setting "Default", which means you
> have no idea what the default actually is :-).

The default is encoded at the qemu level, and libvirt doesn't expose that to
API users. virt-manager could hardcode the defaults, but we've been down that
road before, things get out of date, and its a maintenance pain.

- Cole