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Hodgins +</I>><i> > <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">davidwhodgins at gmail.com</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> >> During testing of updates to qemu, and x11-driver-video-qxl, +</I>><i> >> it has become very clear that no-one could possibly be using +</I>><i> >> these packages, as they are so slow, as to be useless. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Try loading kvm module and selecting the fast drivers for +</I>><i> > network/disk/... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> lsmod|grep kvm +</I>><i> kvm_amd 55516 0 +</I>><i> kvm 413942 1 kvm_amd +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Whether it's loaded or not doesn't seem to make any difference. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If I add the -enable-kvm option, it fails with ... +</I>><i> KVM not supported for this target +</I>><i> No accelerator found! +</I> +There isn't much point letting it proceed. + +><i> Checking under htop shows it's clearly cpu bound, using 2 of my 4 +</I>><i> cores. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The command I used to run qemu was ... +</I>><i> qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom "$Iso" -hda mageia"$Arch".qcow2 -boot d -net +</I>><i> nic +</I>><i> -net user,net=192.168.10.0/16,host=192.168.10.3 -m 4096 -vga qxl +</I>><i> with the Iso and Arch variables set appropriately. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Suggestions for faster disk/network options? +</I> +It's significantly easier with libvirtd and virt-manager, but there's not much point if you haven't got hardware virtualisation enabled. + +><i> Given that other people do find it useful, it's obvious there's +</I>><i> something +</I>><i> wrong either with the options I'm using (or not using), or my hardware +</I>><i> or +</I>><i> bios settings. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Hopefully it's not the hardware. The cpu is an AMD FX(tm)-4170 +</I>><i> Quad-Core +</I>><i> Processor, with the following flags shown in /proc/cpuinfo ... +</I>><i> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca +</I>><i> cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt +</I>><i> pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid +</I>><i> aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes +</I>><i> xsave +</I>><i> avx lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse +</I>><i> 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 nodeid_msr topoext +</I>><i> perfctr +</I>><i> core arat cpb hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale +</I>><i> vmcb_clean +</I>><i> flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold +</I> +svm is the flag in question for basic hardware virtualisation on AMD (vmx for Intel), however many BIOSs ship with hardware virtualisation disabled by default. + + +Regards, +Buchan +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022456.html">[Mageia-dev] Please remove qemu, and qemu-img from Mageia 3. +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022402.html">[Mageia-dev] Please remove qemu, and qemu-img from Mageia 3. +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22820">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22820">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22820">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22820">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |