On 07/07/2012 07:25 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > 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. > I am backing up the following: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/luks-xx 946513204 286868552 611564524 32% / KVM, VM's are all just files on this partition.