> That sounds suspiciously like you are either running fully emulated (eg: no > KVM support) on Slackware, or that you don't have virtio on that platform. >
> It would be interesting, to me, to know if either of those guesses were true, > because I have a current need to improve my skills diagnosing KVM performance > issues and feedback helps with that. :) > I only thought it was that because I could not think what else it could be. In the next few weeks I hope to have some time to investigate further, and will let you know. > Is the backing store for the virtual machine also on the USB disk? If so it > would point a finger toward guest I/O performance is the pain point, and the > introduction of USB would just be making a painful service slower. > In all cases the virtual hard drive was on an (real) external usb drive (not the same one as the host OS was sometimes on). So I don't think the guest I/O is the culprit. Brett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
