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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@eggo.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:48:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546E6192.5000704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <546E16A3.9060608@eggo.org>



On 20/11/2014 17:28, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I'm accustomed to lesser performance on virtual machines. That's the
> hazard of a running on old and slow laptop  (dell e6400 (2.2ghz core
> duo, 8gb ram)[1]) but even virtual box is not this slow.  So what am I
> doing wrong? It would be nice to use a slow machine like this as many
> handcrips don't have a whole lot of resources for buying newer/faster
> machines. On the other hand, many of them use desktops and work from one
> place whereas someone like me is all over the map (quite literally).

How did you start the virtual machine?  Perhaps you're not using KVM but
emulation?  I have a fast machine but slow disk (a NAS on 100 MBit
ethernet) and I can do about 15 automated installations in less than 6
hours.

Are you using libvirt or directly invoking QEMU?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-20 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-18  6:48 can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project) Eric S. Johansson
2014-11-18 13:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-18 13:53   ` Hans de Goede
2014-11-18 14:57     ` Eric S. Johansson
2014-11-20 16:28       ` Eric S. Johansson
2014-11-20 21:48         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-11-20 22:22           ` Eric S. Johansson
2014-11-21 14:06             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-21 16:52               ` Eric S. Johansson
2014-11-21 18:22                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-21 18:24                 ` next puzzle: " Eric S. Johansson
2014-11-21 18:47                   ` Eric S. Johansson
2014-11-18 14:51   ` Eric S. Johansson

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