F9 and KVM

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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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