On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I installed FC14 in a VM, on a 7.7GB disk image. After that was installed and > tested to some extent, I copied the image to an 8GB SD memory and booted off it. > Worked with the micro-SD in an adaptor to full size SD, and in a micro-SD to USB > nubbin. When I installed I made the filesystems ext2 to avoid beating the > storage, other than that stock install. > > Now I can select enhanced effects for video, and they work fine (for values of > fine considering I wanted to see if they work, not that I want them on). > However, the display is still dog slow, glxgears runs at 60fps, video is jerky, > etc. So the "better" video now doesn't crash, does provide effects I don't need, > and is still too slow to be useful, even on a non-game machine. So much for not > using vendor drivers. > > System is i7-950, 12GB RAM, Radeon HD 4350 video, used as a VM host most of the > time. Not a killer machine, not a dog. > > I will be doing some testing to see if the newer KVM is any better in a > measurable way, but when VNC to a machine with fast video is better than > console, there is room for improvement. > Sorry that I've just noticed your original post. You may remember that I've posted elsewhere that I've talked about being very pleased with core i7-920 supporting a mixture of guests, with a Radeon video card. All of that reported experience uses Windows Vista as the host and VMWare software to run the guest operating systems. I had previously tried using Fedora as the host OS, and I am now determined to wait for a viable bare metal hypervisor before trying any further experiments. The Windows Vista/VMWare guest setup appears to involve a fair bit of baling wire and chewing gum, with the need to install VMWare "tools" that are *very* specific to the guest OS. Windows XP runs noticeably better as a guest than does Fedora (surprise, surprise). Windows XP integrates seamlessly with the sound card. For Fedora, the fact that I don't really need a sound card is a big plus (it works, but it's clunky). For everyday operations, though, it's hard to tell that I'm using a virtual machine, even when the virtual machine is acting as an x-server for a remote box. If I were to continue trying to use Fedora as a virtual host at this point, I'd see it as my contribution to what is obviously a very immature software technology. The hardware appears to be more than up to the task. Robert. -- 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
