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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
Cc: dm-crypt maillist <dm-crypt@saout.de>
Subject: [dm-crypt] Re: Performance of KVM & guest hosts under DM Crypt?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:59:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210322035935.GC13798@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1AA4BD9C-312B-4DDA-8C1F-3AE964C2D98E@mousecar.com>

Again, wrong place to ask. Your mouse pointer is provided by
the graphics system with some real-time properties. No 
connection to disk encryption.

Regards,
Arno


On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 18:05:51 CET, ken wrote:
> Does anyone have experience running KVM and two or three guests systems under dm-crypt and can comment performance? I did a search on this topic and the only thing I could find was very brief document written in 2009.
> 
> All this will run on a new and fairly powerful system, powerful for a laptop anyway. It'll have an SSD for a hard drive, 16 gig of RAM, and a bottom-of-the-line 2.6GHz i7 Intel CPU.
> 
> My main concern is with Graphics programs where I'll be using a mouse. A slow system can be annoying at times, but trying to edit a photograph in the Gimp or trying to edit a drawing in AutoCAD (running on W98!) can be next to impossible if the mouse pointer onscreen doesn't keep up with the mouse in hand.
> 
> If any of this will be problematic, are there any tweaks which could be made in order to increase performance?
> 
> Tnx much.
> 
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-21 17:05 [dm-crypt] Performance of KVM & guest hosts under DM Crypt? ken
2021-03-22  3:59 ` Arno Wagner [this message]

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