Comment 7 for bug 1100843

There's nothing in syslog for the VM or host that would imply performance degradation.

I have done this with hugepages and made sure huge page use was consistent. Previously I disabled hugepages and didn't see a difference but I haven't tested again.

I'm using (C)LVM back off FCoE/SAN but I haven't tried local LVM/qcow2 type backing.

I'm using libvirt, but the command line ends up looking like this, if you would like I can provide XML for libvirt as well.

/usr/bin/kvm -name one-10 -S -M pc-1.3 -cpu Westmere -enable-kvm -m 73728 -smp 16,sockets=2,cores=8,threads=1 -uuid 5ee0afd3-df3f-fb1f-02bd-7cde2bc4ee95 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/one-10.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/one//datastores/0/10/disk.0,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/var/lib/one//datastores/0/10/disk.1,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -netdev tap,fd=23,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=02:00:0a:64:02:fd,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -vnc 0.0.0.0:10,password -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5

I'll try experimenting more with THP disabled and different IO backends.