From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: kvm-76 --std-vga problem Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:47:45 +0300 Message-ID: <48E32B21.1040807@redhat.com> References: <48DFFABE.8060304@tait.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm mailing list To: Michael Malone Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:59001 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114AbYJAHrs (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 03:47:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48DFFABE.8060304@tait.co.nz> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Michael Malone wrote: > > 1) what is the difference between running qemu-system-x86_64 and kvm > directly? > Because, when I run kvm directly, I get this error: > The kvm script was mostly a development tool. I don't actually use it anymore. The main drawback is that you have to teach it about all qemu options, and there are many; the only value it provides is reloading the module (useful when you make changes), and not requiring the bios to be installed. > 2) (this has been around for quite some time, I just haven't done > anything about it) > Even though I start up with -smp 2, windows only reads 1 cpu What HAL does Windows use? (Device Manager, properties on the Computer object) -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.