Libvirt Parameters

When browsing through other peoples’ setups, you’ll find a huge range of flags people set. Here’s a list of what I find important, along with what they do. The table on contents will be organized by levels to represent where each config option should go. Note that there are many more flags to explore, should you be so inclined¹.

domain

memory

currentMemory

memoryBacking

hugepages

Specifying huge pages

cputune

os

features

acpi

apic

hyperv

relaxed

vapic

spinlocks

vpindex

runtime

synic

stimer

reset

vendor_id

frequencies

reenlightenment

tlbflush

kvm

hidden

vmport

ipapic

cpu

topology

feature

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1. Here’s the libvirt XML reference for some light reading ↩