From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: can I make this =?UTF-8?B?d29ya+KApiAoRm91bmRhdGlvbiBmb3IgYWM=?= =?UTF-8?B?Y2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgcHJvamVjdCk=?= Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:48:02 +0100 Message-ID: <546E6192.5000704@redhat.com> References: <546AEBAC.1@eggo.org> <546B4E97.7050208@redhat.com> <546B4F70.2020600@redhat.com> <546B5E6F.9030007@eggo.org> <546E16A3.9060608@eggo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Eric S. Johansson" , Hans de Goede , kvm , Gerd Hoffmann Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:54163 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757022AbaKTVsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:48:07 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id z12so4969746wgg.15 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:48:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <546E16A3.9060608@eggo.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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