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

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