[Mageia-dev] x11-driver-video-qxl/qemu/libvirt (was Re: Please remove qemu, and qemu-img from Mageia 3.)

Tue Feb 5 00:25:11 CET 2013

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 :-)
+