Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@eggo.org>]

On 11/20/2014 4:48 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> 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?

I was using one of the GUIs ( less hand stress than trying to assemble a 
commandline). Unfortunately I'm in Windows 8 right now because I'm 
writing. I'm very sure the GUI was http://virt-manager.org/  I tried a 
different one but it kept telling me I only had QEMU I thought "silly 
program, that can't be right". Someday I will not argue with software or 
small electronic boxes. They don't care who wins and they are much more 
stubborn than I am.

I'll be able to run some tests in about 2 to 3 hours after I finish this 
document. Let me know what I should look at?  on a side note, a pointer 
to an automated install process would be wonderful.