Virtualize Win7 blazing fast with virtio on Ubuntu

Posted by kim0 on Mar 5, 2011 9:02 AM EDT
foss-boss.blogspot.com; By Ahmed Kamal
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I'll demo how to "Install Windows7 over Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, using KVM with System Disk over VirtIO". Quoting the libvirt wiki "Virtio is a Linux standard for network and disk device drivers where just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to get high performance network and disk operations, and gives most of the performance benefits of paravirtualization"

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