I am running 3 Virtual Machines under KVM in Ubuntu 11.10. I have read some info on how to optimize the kernel of the Host for Virtualization, that's ok for me, but I need to compile a custom kernel for all VMs (for specific configurations for my work), and would like to know what options should I include or not include for better perfomance.

By Example: 1) what about the CPU configuration? /proc/cpuinfo tells me that my model of cpu is QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.14.1 should I use the configuration of the PC?

2) Networking

3) Specific Hardware

4) Anything else that could make my VMs lighter and faster

Additional info: two of my VMs works basically as webservers and the other as a load-balancer.

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