Op dinsdag 5 februari 2013 00:09:52 schreef Christiaan Welvaart: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, David W. Hodgins wrote: > > During testing of updates to qemu, and x11-driver-video-qxl, > > it has become very clear that no-one could possibly be using > > these packages, as they are so slow, as to be useless. > > Qemu (or rather each qemu-system-*) is an emulator at its core, so > slowness is not a huge surprise. You probably wanted to run it in (fast) > virtualization mode - use qemu-kvm for that (and the kvm module for your > cpu must be loaded to get virtualization working). But running qemu > directly is tiresome, try virt-manager - it works about as well as > virtualbox even if I need to run it as root. I use virt-manager/qemu-kvm > to build+test mga2 updates for iceape, only graphics (spice+vmvga) is slow > (but better than vnc+cirrus). > > Unfortunately people keep updating libvirt, apparently without testing it > - now it is broken again in cauldron. I need to kill all the qemu-system-* > and qemu-kvm that libvirtd starts one by one before virt-manager can > connect. > > > There are many problems with xorg crashing, mouse pointer not > > being where the pointer is shown, etc. These bugs are described > > in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8938 > > A month ago I updated the spice packages; I also tried to update > x11-driver-video-qxl (which is part of spice AFAIK) but it did not work at > all. So if you ask for *that* package to be removed, fine with me. > > > Christiaan
no, please,... get it working instead :-)