On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I've been trying to use Qemu to do some test installs of Ubuntu > server. I've used Qemu successfully in the past, but it seems to have > hit a dead end. The "stable" version (0.11) of Qemu just plain > doesn't work. There are constant segfaults and kernel panics in the > guest environment. > > I updated to the ~x86 version (0.14) -- while the guest OS installs > and runs OK, kernel acceleration (kqemu module) is no longer > supported, and without it Qemu is really slow. > > For now I've switched to VirtualBox, but the console implementation in > VirtualBox is nightmarishly slow. When I do -l looks like it's > scrolling by at about 9600 baud. > > Is Qemu dead? Or just dying? > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! What UNIVERSE is > this, > at please?? > gmail.com > > > I've been using QEMU on, nearly, a daily basis for the last few months. Last I checked, I believe they're on track for a v1.0 release in November or December. I, honestly, haven't had many problems with unexpected segfaults on either Gentoo or Ubuntu, so I can't give any advice for that. As for the speed issue, have you tried building KVM into the kernel or at least as a mod? - Matt
