On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:46:45 Andrew Olney wrote: > I've been migrating from Xen to KVM for a wide variety of reasons. > > I've noticed, however, that XP installs much much faster with Xen (3.03 > xen-image-xen0-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0 ubuntu) than with KVM (14). > > I haven't clocked it, but for KVM it takes longer than realtime (by the > XP install clock) and with Xen it takes less than realtime. > > I assume that this is all file I/O related, which raises the question: > what file system setup optimizes KVM I/O, e.g. qcow vs. raw?
I experienced very slow graphic performance with kvm, could that be related too? For example, graphic grub boot splash is very slow, as is any form of frame buffer boot in linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
