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:

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


kind regards,

David Sommerseth