On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote:
> So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and > VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP > Pro. > > VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe > Premiere Elements. I have filed a bug at Oracle's site, but no action yet > after five weeks. > > I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" even > though libvirtd is running. > > If I start kvm from the command line I get: > > WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: > /home/carlf/.cache/keyring-7jbXBL/pkcs11: No such file or directory > error: failed to get domain '/mnt/data/kvm-images/xp2' > error: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown > > So anyone have another suggestion? VMWare doesn't appeal to me--I didn't > like it much when I tried it years ago and it's very, very proprietary. > > Xen seems to be more difficult to set up than the above-mentioned and > Windows support is not complete--although the implication of the Xen docs > is that even without paravirtualization it wouldn't run *slower* than under > VB. > > Any kvm experts who can help me debug? Anyone got a brilliant howto or FAQ > to point me to? Should I file a bug against Debian's kvm/qemu? Any advice > much appreciated. I'm currently running Testing on an AMD FX-8120-based > system. > > Thanks. > -- > Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com > > Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! > Stupid mistakes you can correct! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120705022951.ga13...@panix.com > > Carl, I once wrote an article about using KVM for kernel development. You could see that here. http://saurorja.org/2011/07/04/creating-a-minimal-kernel-development-setup-using-kvmqemu/ I always use kvm/qemu especially with XP guest and it is working fine. But I am not using libvirt now, so IO is a bit slow then. Anand -- http://saurorja.org Twitter: @anand_sivaram
