If the install took 10 hours I would check to make sure you're running KVM on a processor with hardware virtualization. What you describe sounds like what I'd expect if it was falling back to using Qemu emulation instead of KVM.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Herrington" <[email protected]> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:30:41 AM Subject: [PLUG] KVM All, I'm trying KVM out as a replacement for Vmware ESX. I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 on an HP DL360. Setting up a CentOs 5.4 image, the install took 10 hours. I'm guessing the problem lies in the way I've get storage pools and volumes setup? I originally tried to do a storage pool on a physical disk device, but had trouble creating a volume on it after. Finally decided to abandon that in favor of pre-formatted block device storage pool. Has anyone used pre-formatted block devices with KVM before? My reasoning for physical disk, and then the block device storage pools was I assumed it would be faster than simply a file system directory. I'm curious if anybody on this list has experience with the best setup for storage pools? What criteria did you use to determine which type to go with? thanks, -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Dwight Hubbard, RHCE/VCP Email: [email protected] Phone: 503.941.0327 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
