I/O performance for a kvm guest

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Issue

  • What type of I/O performance is normal for a kvm guest?

Environment

  • Host: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 and later

  • Guest: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 and later

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 and later NFS Server (deadline scheduler)

  • Host hardware: Dell 490 workstation, 1G network, Xeon 5120@1.86GHz CPU, 4G RAM, 7200 RPM sata2 disk

  • Guest hardware: 2 allocated CPU's, 1G RAM

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