This is exactly what I need! Although I'm on 64-bit. Where can I get the source files and instructions to compile - or an amd64 .deb????

Just a few notes based on my usage of kvm: I use kvm in production', runinng a web and a mail server inside kvm virtual machines. Both are rock solid, but the traffic on both is low, so that doesn't mean too much.These are just settings which work well for me. I don't claim they are optimal and I didn't run benchmarks. But perhaps there is some useful option you missed.For starting kvm in background I use the following options:kvm -vnc none -monitor unix:/home/jan/VM/vm1/monitor,server,nowait -daemonizeWith -vnc none, an internal vnc server is started, but not connected to any port. As I usually don't access the console, this is fine. If I need console access for some reason, I can connect to kvm using something like nc -U ~/VM/vm1/monitor' and enter change vnc 127.0.0.1:x' to bind the vnc server to port x.To shutdown the vm I can useecho system_powerdown | nc -q 30 -U /home/jan/VM/vm1/monitorFor networking, I prefer a tap device. This seems to be the most flexible option, as I can add it to a software bridge, use routing,firewalling etc. just like on a physical interface. As I don't want to run kvm with root privileges, I add a tap interfacein /etc/network/interfaces:iface tap_jan0 inet manual tunctl_user jan up ifconfig $IFACE up up ip route add 192.168.1.2/32 dev $IFACEtunctl_user makes this device accessible by an unpriviliged user, so kvm can be run as a normal user. I use the following options:-net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=02:00:00:00:10:02 -net tap,ifname=tap_jan0,script=nomodel=virtio should be faster than the default and is fine when runinng a moderately recent linux as client OS.The same is probably true for disk devices, but I didn't try that, yet:Instead of using -hda, one can use -drive file= ,index=0,media=disk,if=virtioThe only stability problem I had with this system (host cpu: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 5600+) was that kvm didn't like frequency scaling onthe host, which I disabled withdevices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor = performancein /etc/sysfs.conf.I should probably find out if this problem is solved by now to gain the power saving advantages of frequency scaling, as I installed the system more than a year ago and didn't touch these settings since then.I hope some of these settings are useful to you.

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