From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Johansson" Subject: Re: can I make this =?UTF-8?B?d29ya+KApiAoRm91bmRhdGlvbiBmb3IgYWM=?= =?UTF-8?B?Y2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgcHJvamVjdCk=?= Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:22:22 -0500 Message-ID: <546E699E.1010901@eggo.org> References: <546AEBAC.1@eggo.org> <546B4E97.7050208@redhat.com> <546B4F70.2020600@redhat.com> <546B5E6F.9030007@eggo.org> <546E16A3.9060608@eggo.org> <546E6192.5000704@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paolo Bonzini , Hans de Goede , kvm , Gerd Hoffmann Return-path: Received: from z.eggo.org ([80.235.105.138]:58106 "EHLO z.eggo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756600AbaKTWW3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:22:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <546E6192.5000704@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.