VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base boxes or kvm,virtualbox and fusion images
st build of the kvm virtio drivers are now available at fedoraproject.org. The drivers include virtio drivers for ballooning memory, virtioserial, network and viostor ( block drivers ). These drivers are signed but not WHQL and
This article assumes a KVM guest that runs from raw or qcow2 devices using emulated ide access. Since some time now, full virtualisation for block devices is available, facilitating the benefit of paravirtualisation. Benchmarked in bonnie++, the difference looks like this, revealing a way better performance of virtio:
How to convert a physical server to a virtual one using the open source tool Clonezilla Live
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
This is a Vagrant 1.1+ plugin that adds an Libvirt provider to Vagrant, allowing Vagrant to control and provision machines via Libvirt toolkit.
