<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">> Newer virt-manager versions also allow setting this in the UI.<br><br>I just set IDE Disk1 "cashe mode" none before install.<br>No relief<br><br>Boris.<br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 1/14/11, Cole Robinson <i><crobinso@redhat.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com><br>Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [fedora-virt] Fedora Virt status<br>To: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, virt@lists.fedoraproject.org, "Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org<br>Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 3:16 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On 01/14/2011 01:09 PM, Boris Derzhavets wrote:<br>>> Boris can you help me to parse this ...<br>>
<br>>> SL6 = Scientific Linux 6?<br>> <br>> Yes, I work with SL6 alpha 4<br>> <br>>> And you're saying that Windows 7 is much faster on SL6 than on Fedora 14?<br>> <br>> Installation itself . Packages deployment phase is much faster on SL 6 ( alpha 4),<br>> even if I don't pre-load viostor.sys ( option working only on SL 6 )<br>><br><br>Probably cache related. In RHEL6 we default to cache=none, not so in<br>Fedora. Use 'virsh edit' to stick <driver name='qemu' cache='none'/><br>in your <disk> block, and restart the guest. Newer virt-manager versions<br>also allow setting this in the UI.<br><br>- Cole<br><br>>> Are virtio-blk and virtio-net drivers installed in the Windows guest?<br>> <br>> Yes.<br>> <br>> <br>> Please, view for details :-<br>> <br>> <a href="http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/set-up-rh-virtio-scsi-driver-on-windows-xp-kvm-at-kvm-qemu-instance-on-f14/"
target="_blank">http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/set-up-rh-virtio-scsi-driver-on-windows-xp-kvm-at-kvm-qemu-instance-on-f14/</a><br>> <br>> XML profiles for F14 and SL6 will be sent to you a bit latter. I cannot reboot box right<br>> now.<br>> <br>> Boris.<br>> <br>> <br>> --- On Fri, 1/14/11, Richard W.M. Jones <<a ymailto="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> From: Richard W.M. Jones <<a ymailto="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Fedora Virt status<br>> To: "Boris Derzhavets" <<a ymailto="mailto:bderzhavets@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=bderzhavets@yahoo.com">bderzhavets@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Cc: <a ymailto="mailto:virt@lists.fedoraproject.org"
href="/mc/compose?to=virt@lists.fedoraproject.org">virt@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>, "Justin M. Forbes" <<a ymailto="mailto:jmforbes@linuxtx.org" href="/mc/compose?to=jmforbes@linuxtx.org">jmforbes@linuxtx.org</a>>, <a ymailto="mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org" href="/mc/compose?to=qemu-devel@nongnu.org">qemu-devel@nongnu.org</a><br>> Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 12:40 PM<br>> <br>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:27:17AM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:<br>>> Windows 7 KVM install runs unbelievably fast on SL 6 ( alpha 3) vs F14 with the<br>>> most recent libvirt stuff :<br>> <br>> Boris can you help me to parse this ...<br>> <br>> SL6 = Scientific Linux 6?<br>> <br>> And you're saying that Windows 7 is much faster on SL6 than on Fedora 14?<br>> <br>>> P.S. It happens no matter of pre-install loading Virtio SCSI driver,<br>>> which is also possible only on SL6 via virtio-win.1.1.16.noarch.rpm.<br>>
<br>> Not sure what 'Virtio SCSI' is.<br>> <br>> Are virtio-blk and virtio-net drivers installed in the Windows guest?<br>> <br>> What does the libvirt XML for this guest look like (from both SL6 and<br>> Fedora 14)?<br>> <br>> Rich.<br>> <br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>