FC13 as a VM

[Dale J. Chatham]

I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky.  It's bad enough at 
800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but 
unusable.  When I ran vmware the performance was quite good.

Are there any obvious gotchas, is there a better pick than KVM or should 
I just go back to vmware server?  BTW, blackbox was pretty decent, too, 
but it used Zen and I've not seen Zen kernels distributed.

On 06/10/2010 11:36 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:56:13 -0600
> Jamie Bohr wrote:
>
>    
>> Has anyone successfully installed FC13 (or FC12) as a VM on KVM server?  If
>> so, was there something special you did to make it work?
>>      
> I've installed fedora versions as KVMs from f8 through f13 without
> any problems using the DVD iso images as the cdrom file. (In both
> 32 and 64 bit flavors as well).
>
> I have often had problems using an actual DVD and pointing at a
> real DVD drive (which is why I gave up on that and use iso image
> files on hard disk exclusively now when I install new KVMs).
>
> Lately I've been using qcow2 file images as the hard disks for
> the installs since I don't need great performance for disk I/O in
> the VMs and qcow2 images are fairly compact.
>    


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