Yeah, I tried the same qemu experiment on a development box running Ubuntu
8.10 and a VMWare VM running Ubuntu 8.10 and got the exact same response. 
So I figured it was something between MIC and Qemu.

I think this just goes to show a VMWare VM behaves pretty darn accurately
as a dev box ;-).


> I get the same response using qemu.  This is not just a problem with
> VMware.
>
>
> Greg Pangrazio
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:09 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
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