Re: [kvm-devel] XP installation speed: KVM vs Xen

2007-02-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Andrew Olney wrote: > I've been migrating from Xen to KVM for a wide variety of reasons. > > I've noticed, however, that XP installs much much faster with Xen (3.03 > xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0 ubuntu) than with KVM (14). > btw, as both Xen and kvm use qemu, Xen full virtualization i

Re: [kvm-devel] XP installation speed: KVM vs Xen

2007-02-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Andrew Olney wrote: > I've been migrating from Xen to KVM for a wide variety of reasons. > > I've noticed, however, that XP installs much much faster with Xen (3.03 > xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0 ubuntu) than with KVM (14). > > I haven't clocked it, but for KVM it takes longer than realtime

Re: [kvm-devel] XP installation speed: KVM vs Xen

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Andrew Olney wrote: > I've been migrating from Xen to KVM for a wide variety of reasons. > > I've noticed, however, that XP installs much much faster with Xen (3.03 > xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0 ubuntu) than with KVM (14). > > I haven't clocked it, but for KVM it takes longer than realtime

Re: [kvm-devel] XP installation speed: KVM vs Xen

2007-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Andreas Hasenack wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:46:45 Andrew Olney wrote: > >> I've been migrating from Xen to KVM for a wide variety of reasons. >> >> I've noticed, however, that XP installs much much faster with Xen (3.03 >> xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0 ubuntu) than with KVM (

Re: [kvm-devel] XP installation speed: KVM vs Xen

2007-02-27 Thread Andreas Hasenack
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:46:45 Andrew Olney wrote: > I've been migrating from Xen to KVM for a wide variety of reasons. > > I've noticed, however, that XP installs much much faster with Xen (3.03 > xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0 ubuntu) than with KVM (14). > > I haven't clocked it, but

[kvm-devel] XP installation speed: KVM vs Xen

2007-02-27 Thread Andrew Olney
I've been migrating from Xen to KVM for a wide variety of reasons. I've noticed, however, that XP installs much much faster with Xen (3.03 xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0 ubuntu) than with KVM (14). I haven't clocked it, but for KVM it takes longer than realtime (by the XP install clock) and

Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU / KVM support in libvirt & virt-manager

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >The virt-manager in Fedora Core 6 hasn't been updated to the newest > >0.3.1 release yet - only the underling libvirt has been pushed to FC6 > >thus far. > > Will we see it in FC6-updates? I'd like to try

Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU / KVM support in libvirt & virt-manager

2007-02-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The virt-manager in Fedora Core 6 hasn't been updated to the newest > 0.3.1 release yet - only the underling libvirt has been pushed to FC6 > thus far. Will we see it in FC6-updates? I'd like to try it, but I'm not keen on rawhide. -- error compiling committee.c:

Re: [kvm-devel] How can I help?

2007-02-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Chris Stromblad wrote: > Hi again, > > Exactly how can I disable the bootsplash? Install/boot with -no-kvm, then edit the grub configuration file. The details vary, and I'm not sure how to do it on Ubuntu. > And out of curiosity, why is > that preventing KVM/QEMU from working properly? >

Re: [kvm-devel] How can I help?

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Stromblad
Hi again, Exactly how can I disable the bootsplash? And out of curiosity, why is that preventing KVM/QEMU from working properly? / Chris On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 11:39 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Chris Stromblad wrote: > > Few years ago I did a fair bit of x86 programming, but with the more > > rece