On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 2:51 PM <regloff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recently installed a Windows 10 VM under oVirt 4.4.5.11-1.el8
Also installed the drivers using "virtio-win-1.9.16.iso" (Then
re-installed them after updates just in case it helped)
I found a similar complaint with VMWare (
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/vmware-workstati...
)
So I looked into that and made a registry change for the AHCI controller,
as well as setting the 'viodiskcache' to write-back (Seen in another thread
on here) - those two changes seemed to help.. marginally. But not much at
all.
When I do just about anything, disk usage spikes to 100% and stays there
for quite a while. Write speeds rarely break 100kb/sec.
Not even sure what to look for next. My Linux VMs don't seem to have this
issue and the host it's running on is barely working at all. CPU and memory
stay close to unused. oVirt didn't show a lot, but in task manager in the
Windows VM - you can see disk queue just pegged completely.
I've given the VM 6GB of RAM, so that's not it. I even turned off paging
in the Windows VM as well, to no avail.
This is an example of disk usage, just opening 'Groove Music' for the
first time.
https://i.postimg.cc/FRLq28Mw/Disk-Activity.png
Any ideas? :)
Hello,
I've got a number of Windows 7/8/10 and 16 VMs running on a number of
different oVirt clusters, ranging from single host setups (NFS localhost
storage) up to multiple-host setups (Gluster storage) and I'm not seeing
any performance issues.
Can you share additional information concerning the host, storage and VM
configuration?
- Gilboa