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. > -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803 There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -- Ed Howdershelt (Author) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines