fedora 12 KVM virtulization question

[Bill Davidsen]

mantra UNIX wrote:
> Roberto,
> 
> Is the feature present in your CPU? (/proc/cpuinfo)
> YES
> 
> Is it not disabled in the BIOS? (/var/log/messages)
> Its enabled in BIOS
> 
> Do you have the right module loaded? (lsmod)
> kvm shows up in the list
> 
> Are you sure you should not run qemu-kvm instead of qemu?
> I tried qemu-kvm with same results.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it 
> <mailto:mail at robertoragusa.it>> wrote:
> 
>     mantra UNIX wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      > I have a laptop dual booting "Windows XP" and "Fedora 12".
>      >
>      > I would like to boot "Windows XP" from inside "Fedora 12" using
>     the KVM
>      > virtulization feature.
>      >
>      > I am using the following command and it works, but very very
>     slow, takes
>      > long time to even get the login screen, any ideas ...
>      >
>      >     # qemu  /dev/sda
> 
>     Are you sure you are using the hardware virtualization feature?
>     In particular:
> 
>     Is the feature present in your CPU? (/proc/cpuinfo)
>     Is it not disabled in the BIOS? (/var/log/messages)
>     Do you have the right module loaded? (lsmod)
>     Are you sure you should not run qemu-kvm instead of qemu?
> 
You should be running qemu-kvm, as a user with rw permissions on /dev/kvm. ie. 
root or group kvm.If you are running Fedora off the same disk the access 
definitely might be slowed, but should work in reasonable time.

I'm not sure about the command as you showed it, I run a number of VMs on this 
machine (this is a VM), and I would expect to use something like:
   qemu-kvm -m 768 -hda /dev/sda -net nic -vga-std

or similar as a start.

>     Best regards.
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