Use Paravirtualized Devices On Your Virtual Machines
This is post #13 in my December 2013 series about Linux Virtual Machine Performance Tuning. For more, please see the tag “Linux VM Performance Tuning.” para- a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, most often attached to verbs and verbal derivatives, with the meanings “at or to one side of, beside, side by side” ( parabola; paragraph; parallel; paralysis ),”beyond, past, by” ( paradox; paragogue ); by extension from these senses, this prefix came todesignate objects or activities auxiliary to r derivative of that denoted by the base word ( parody;paronomasia ), and hence abnormal or defective ( paranoia ), a sense now common in modernscientific coinages ( parageusia; paralexia ). Paravirtual drivers are ones where the virtualization platform does …