On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 12:16 +0800, Malina Sulca wrote: > Hello all, > > I decided recently to try Hurd, and I thought it best to document it > in a blog that you can find here: > http://hurdbeginner.blogspot.com/ > > So I installed it in a VM but the I/O is very slow. This is also the > case for the pre-installed image that can be downloaded from here: > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz > > How can I improve the overall performance level of the system to make > it usable?
Are you sure kvm is enabled on your computer? This is a setting in the BIOS, and the following modules should be loaded: lsmod|grep kvm kvm_intel 47257 3 kvm 268970 1 kvm_intel > I suppose there are no guest drivers as of yet, but maybe something > can be improved in the configuration of some server? You can try the following for the HDD parameters! Replace -hda hurd-raw.img with -drive cache=writeback,index=0,media=disk,file=hurd-raw.img That might improve your IO performance. > As a bonus, is it possible to increase the default size of the > console? 80x25 feels a bit cramped. I use port forwarding to get access to a terminal via ssh. Thereby I also get the right keyboard, since the Hurd console only supports the US keyboard right now: -net user,hostfwd=tcp::5556-:22 Connect from a host terminal via: ssh -p5556 localhost (And of course you need sshd running on the guest) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1333707401.2705.63.camel@x60
