Windows runs best when it knows it’s virtualized. Since SUSE Virtualization 1.9, the Windows templates turn on Hyper-V enlightenments and virtio-blk, which removed periodic I/O stalls, cut a write-heavy phase by 24%, and kept older Windows from losing two-thirds of its random IOPS.
WSO2’s open-source DBaaS operator turns a Kubernetes object into a PostgreSQL VM on SUSE Virtualization, with TLS, credentials and monitoring wired up, in about 100 seconds. Here’s a quick install, including how to build its image without Packer.
A copy-paste version of my Harvester knowledge base article on NetApp Trident: every manifest and command for NFS, iSCSI and NVMe/TCP backends, with as little prose as possible.
What a summer of work on SUSE Virtualization’s LVM CSI driver taught me: why a thin pool’s chunk size can cost you 98% of your IOPS, what changed upstream, the new VM storage settings in 1.9.1, and what encryption at rest costs.
Kasm Workspaces 1.19 has a built-in Harvester provider: it creates agent VMs on demand, streams desktops to the browser, and deletes the VMs when they sit idle. Here’s a working setup on SUSE Virtualization v1.9, including Windows desktops, and five upstream bugs to work around.