Re: Abysmal VM performance even with btrfs+nodatacow

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 2:41 PM Tom Horsley  wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 14:32:03 -0500
> Richard Shaw wrote:
> > Any tips? Or do I just need to buy a cheap SSD and format it EXT4 just
>
> for
> > virtual machine images?
>
> Did you install the virtual disk and network drivers from redhat
> inside the Windows machine? If not, you are doing everything with
> dead slow emulation. I get fairly decent performance with
> my windows VM, but only by using the redhat drivers.

Thanks, that helped a lot. Not quite as responsive as VirtualBox but a lot
better.

Thanks,
Richard