From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: My KVM is not perform that good as announce Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:44:03 +0300 Message-ID: <4DFA08A3.5010005@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Chee-Yang Chau Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24736 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751939Ab1FPNoH (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:44:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/16/2011 02:39 PM, Chee-Yang Chau wrote: > I am using normal PC with the following specifications: > > Intel Core 2 6600 @ 2.40GHz > RAM: 2G > Motherboard: Intel DG965RY > HDD: 7200 rpm @ 250G > I have enabled Intel VT in BIOS setting. > > I install the latest Fedora 15 and KVM enabled. I installed both > Windows XP x64 and Windows 7 x64 as guest OS. The installation time is > taking longer as compare to native installation on same machine. After > the lengthy installation, I enable remote desktop for both windows > instances. I continue configure the windows and found that lot of > operations seems slow and lagging. > > I then use Passmark to benchmark these virtual machines. The overall > rating is only 273. I then try to benchmark native windows on the same > machine and the rating is 613. > > Obviously KVM does not perform at near native speed. Did you install the virtio drivers for Windows? How did you configure kvm? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function