F9 and KVM
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu May 8 11:24:44 UTC 2008
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:22:51AM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Ok, I tried creating some fresh images using virt-manager. I'm not having
> much luck. I try creating a f7 and f9 vm. On both installs the installer
> runs slow. Much slower than equivalent vm in vmware under F7. Also both
> installs get stuck at prompt to initialize /dev/sda. When you answer 'yes'
> it takes almost 10 minutes for a prompt to come back and say it had some
> error and retry,ignore,cancel. I'm wondering if the speed issue is
> related to this being a quad-core machine?
It's more likely down to your hardware either not supporting hardware
virtualization, or supporting it really badly. Is the kvm-intel or
kvm-amd module loaded into the kernel? Did 'dmesg' say anything when
it was loaded? What is in /proc/cpuinfo flags?
Rich.
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