Upgrade from 5.4 to 6.1 - Windows KVM guests slow

Giovanni

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Apr 1, 2009
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Hi,

I was successful in upgrading my system from 5.4 to 6.1 today without any major issues. However, after a reboot post-upgrade the Windows KVM guests seem to be slower than on the previous version.

The KVM guests have the drivers installed from virtio-win-0.1.173.iso - which are believe are the latest. All settings are as recommended in the wiki article as well so not sure why suddenly the performance dropped.

is there anything under the new KVM/QEMU that needs to be done to restore the performance?
I noticed pve6 added some new 'performance tweaks' for windows hosts but this seems to be the opposite of expected.

Code:
root@pve:~# pveversion --verbose
proxmox-ve: 6.1-2 (running kernel: 5.3.13-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.1-5 (running version: 6.1-5/9bf06119)
pve-kernel-5.3: 6.1-1
pve-kernel-helper: 6.1-1
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.4-12
pve-kernel-5.3.13-1-pve: 5.3.13-1
pve-kernel-4.15.18-24-pve: 4.15.18-52
pve-kernel-4.15.18-23-pve: 4.15.18-51
pve-kernel-4.15.18-20-pve: 4.15.18-46
pve-kernel-4.15.18-16-pve: 4.15.18-41
pve-kernel-4.15.18-12-pve: 4.15.18-36
pve-kernel-4.15.18-9-pve: 4.15.18-30
pve-kernel-4.15.18-8-pve: 4.15.18-28
pve-kernel-4.15.18-1-pve: 4.15.18-19
pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve: 4.15.17-9
pve-kernel-4.13.13-6-pve: 4.13.13-42
pve-kernel-4.13.8-2-pve: 4.13.8-28
pve-kernel-4.13.4-1-pve: 4.13.4-26
pve-kernel-4.10.17-3-pve: 4.10.17-23
pve-kernel-4.10.17-1-pve: 4.10.17-18
pve-kernel-4.10.15-1-pve: 4.10.15-15
pve-kernel-4.10.11-1-pve: 4.10.11-9
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.0.2-pve4
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: 0.8.35+pve1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.13-pve1
libpve-access-control: 6.0-5
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-2
libpve-common-perl: 6.0-10
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-storage-perl: 6.1-3
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve3
lxc-pve: 3.2.1-1
lxcfs: 3.0.3-pve60
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
openvswitch-switch: 2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.8ca7c82b7d+ds1-12+deb10u1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.1-2
pve-cluster: 6.1-3
pve-container: 3.0-16
pve-docs: 6.1-3
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20191127-1
pve-firewall: 4.0-9
pve-firmware: 3.0-4
pve-ha-manager: 3.0-8
pve-i18n: 2.0-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 4.1.1-2
pve-xtermjs: 3.13.2-1
qemu-server: 6.1-4
smartmontools: 7.1-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.2-pve2
root@pve:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease
Hit:5 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/corosync-3 stretch InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@pve:~# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfdt1 pve-kernel-4.13.13-6-pve pve-kernel-4.15.17-1-pve pve-kernel-4.15.18-1-pve pve-kernel-4.15.18-12-pve
  pve-kernel-4.15.18-16-pve pve-kernel-4.15.18-20-pve pve-kernel-4.15.18-23-pve pve-kernel-4.15.18-8-pve
  pve-kernel-4.15.18-9-pve
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@pve:~#
 
Windows KVM guests seem to be slower than on the previous version.
This is relatively vague. What exactly is slower? Do you have any benchmarks?

virtio-win-0.1.173 is ok. Could you please post qm config VMID?
 

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