On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:09:52 -0500, Christiaan Welvaart
<c...@daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:
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).
Thanks, I'll take a look at virt-manager.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
