Performance — virtio, CPU pinning, NUMA and hugepages

1 h Python 3.12 (Debian, git, pip) Versions libvirt 9 à 11, QEMU 8 à 10, noyau 6.x

Objective

Understand why a VM is slow, and apply, in the right order, the settings that bring it close to the performance of a physical server: first the virtio drivers, then the disk, then the processor and the memory.

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