Andreas Hasenack wrote: > 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. >
Graphic grub boot is different from the rest of graphics and should not be any worse than Xen. Regards, Anthony Liguori > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
