On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:16 AM, David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 07/06/2012 02:23 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>>
>>> >  By the way, if you skip using AHCI and just program the bios
>>> >  for IDE, you don't even have to use an f6 disk to install XP.
>>> >  No sign of drivers doing XP in yet.  Although the day will come.
>>> >
>>> >  Great letter.  Thank you!
>>
>> You didn't notice any performance issues with virtualized IDE versus SCSI?
>
>
> IDE and SCSI emulation is not going to impress you on performance.  Using
> virtio for disk access may improve the performance, and the Windows drivers
> should be available here:

David, I belive that Todd is using "dump" to back up the
virtualization server, not the virtualization guests. The "dump"
comman dwould be completely useless for a Windows partition, whether
FAT32 or NTFS.

> <http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers>

Now, if you have to back up virtualized Windows *guest* hosts, that's
a whole other set of adventures.