On Sunday 25 October 2009 22:20:33 Sam Sharpe wrote: > How did you install your virtual machines, I opened "Virtual Machine Manager" from the menu (F10 64bit, KDE, fully updated), and created a guest using the wizard that appeared. I was nicely surprised with the user-friendliness. Of course, virt-manager first complained about some daemon not running, selinux complained that qemu is trying to create vm files in a non-default place, etc., but those were not big problems to solve, and I handled them. After that the wizard went smoothly. > and do you have Hardware > Virtualisation support enabled on your chipset? Not only that it isn't enabled, it rather doesn't exist (see my other post in the thread). But that does not explain for such a big performance difference between qemu and vmware. They both run without hardware support here. > I use Virt Manager to install guests all the time. That uses KVM as > the virtualisation infrastructure, which in turn uses qemu-kvm as a > backend. Same thing here, I think. Only, KVM doesn't seem to do anything when virtualization is all-software. How do I check which backend is being used? I didn't find any info on that in the GUI. > So I think (and don't take this the wrong way) that you're probably > doing it all wrong - and that's why your performance is so bad! Qemu > on it's own is Software virtualisation, with absolutely no > acceleration at all - if that's what you are using, I'm not surprised > it sucks ;o) Yes, that's what I am using, and yes --- as you say --- it sucks, but I'm surprised that vmware works visibly better in same conditions. Same hardware, same all-software-virtualization, same type of guest. The only difference is that vmware guest has the vmware-tools package installed, which visibly improves its performance. I failed to find an equivalent tools package for qemu guest. I did read (ok, skimmed through) qemu docs, but found no information on how to improve qemu performance. So what am I doing wrong? Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
