On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I am busy setting up some XEN servers on a SAN for high availability > and Cloud Computing, and thought it could be cool to setup > virtualization on a CentOS 5.5 Desktop, running on a Core i3 + 4GB > RAM [...] > > So, I installed CentOS + KDE, chose the Virtualization package and > used Virtual Machine Manager to setup another CentOS VM inside CentOS > (I only have a CentOS ISO on this SAN, since we don't use Debian / > Slackware / FC / Ubuntu / etc). The installation was probably about > the same speed as it would be on raw hardware. But, using the > interface is painfully slow. I opened up Firefox and browsed the web a > bit. The mouse cursor lagged a bit and whenever I loaded a slow / > large website, it seemed asif the whole VM lagged behind. > > The Virtual Machine didn't use much resources. I allocated 1CPU core & > 512MB RAM to it
I've never allocated less than 1 GB RAM to a VM with an active GUI, but I suspect that RAM crunch is part of the problem. Install CentOS 5 on raw hardware with 512 MB RAM and try running Firefox... -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
