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Windows Guests
NOTE: QEMU guest agent
requires also virtio-serial'
===== Win7 =====
* WIN7: do not enable KVM storage cache. Writeback cache slows down everything.
====== Tuning Guest ======
* Performance Tweaks
* Expose native CPU to Guest: Change Processor type to host
* Do not enable any caching on storage devices, it slows down everything!
* If HDD is used, create ZFS SLOG and L2ARC cache on SSD/NVM
===== Windows 10 =====
* Change
* Disable suspending: “Control Panel” –> “Power Options” –> “Show additional plans” –> “High performance”
* Disable hibernation:
powercfg.exe /hibernate off
* launch “regedit.exe” and:
* set value of
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon and change “ShutdownWithoutLogon” to 1
* go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7'' and set “Attributes” value to 2
- then go to “Control Panel” –> “System and Security” –> “Power Options” and then –> “Change plan settings” on choosed power plan –> “Change Advanced Power Settings” –> “Display” and set 'Console lock display off timeout' to 0 to disable it