Robert Myers wrote: > 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. > Odd, I have been running this desktop as virtual since FC6, and under FC13 I have a number of VMs running which seem just fine, including various Fedora, CentOS-5, and XP machines. I tried VISTA as a test, and it was clunky, but then it is on bare metal, as well. One thing to note, I start VMs from script using qemu-kvm called from command line. I started doing that back when there was no fancy hypervisor, and it suits my usage (which is admittedly sometimes unusual). Other than enabling the analog sound in PA I use no tricks, and run fine on FC1[34] hosts. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
