[fedora-arm] F18 ARM vexpress XFCE on QEMU

[Eric Smith]

So I tried the F18 vexpress XFCE image and kernel on QEMU, using the 
most recent nightly from scotland.proximity.on.ca.

It has a (probably) different problem from the F17 release images I've 
tried previously.  I can successfully get it booted to an XFCE session.  
When I try to do a yum upgrade, it has serious network performance 
problems.  It actually had connection timeouts talking to 
archive.kernel.org and mirrors.rit.edu, among others.  I have no trouble 
talking to those servers from the host, and get high bandwidth and low 
latency, so I don't know any reason why the performance in QEMU should 
be so abysmal.

I presume that this stuff works much better on real hardware?