K.S. Bhaskar on 27 Mar 2008 15:46:21 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] virtualization recommendations


Matthew, are you using the SVGA emulation or the Cirrus emulation?  Thanx.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Matthew Rosewarne
<mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2008, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
>  > I use kvm / qemu+kqemu frequently.  For console Linux guests, it's
>  > pretty fast.  For Windows and GUI Linux, its performance leaves much
>  > to be desired, which suggests to me that it's not the virtualization
>  > per se that is slow but rather the graphics emulation.
>
>  Most of the experience I've had with KQEMU is with running Windows guests, and
>  I haven't noticed any real problems with its performance.  I'm running win2k
>  mostly, but XP seems only a little slower.
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