I tried the 'launch VM' on MIC in a Ubuntu 8.10 VM under VMWare Workstation 6.05 and worked...almost at least. I don't have VT-enabled HW on my computer, so I hacked gui.py to use qemu. That works in that it launches the VM. I did not think it was that slow (but definitely slower than if I do it on my host machine), but I get caught in the following endless loop on boot:
Begin: Mounting root file system Checking device /dev/sda for installation source... Checking device /dev/sdb for installation source... Checking device /dev/sdc for installation source... Checking device /dev/sdd for installation source... sleeping 5 seconds Checking device /dev/sda for installation source... Checking device /dev/sdb for installation source... Checking device /dev/sdc for installation source... Checking device /dev/sdd for installation source... sleeping 5 seconds . . I filed bug 135 in bugzilla.moblin.org on this. I have 4Gigs of RAM and a dual-core Pentium to try and get as much horsepower for running VMs. Also, I just read doing the following for /dev/shm to try and get VMs to run faster (though I have not tried it yet): Nevertheless, where can I use /dev/shm? You can use /dev/shm to improve the performance of application software or overall Linux system performance. On heavily loaded system, it can make tons of difference. For example VMware workstation/server can be optimized to improve your Linux host's performance (i.e. improve the performance of your virtual machines). For example, if you have 8GB RAM then remount /dev/shm as follows: # mount -o remount,size=8G /dev/shm To be frank, if you have more than 2GB RAM + multiple Virtual machines, this hack always improves performance. # mount -t tmpfs -o size=5G,nr_inodes=5k,mode=700 tmpfs /disk2/tmpfs Above will give you tmpfs instance on /disk2/tmpfs which can allocate 5GB RAM/SWAP in 5K inodes and it is only accessible by root. Whole article is here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/what-is-devshm-and-its-practical-usage.html > All, > I've installed a VMWare virtual machine with Fedora core 9 and > image-creator on it. > Now I'd like to create and test an application using an emulator > (as Xephyr in Moblin1) but I think that doesn't works anymore. > I've tried lunching a VM using MIC, but that configuration runs > extremely slowly -the same configuration using moblin 1 works fine > -, and I can't execute applications in desktop like firefox. > Does anybody tested Moblin2 running on a Fedora 9 VM? > > Regards > Cristian > > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
