[Mageia-dev] x11-driver-video-qxl/qemu/libvirt (was Re: Please remove qemu, and qemu-img from Mageia 3.)

[David W. Hodgins]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:09:52 -0500, Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, David W. Hodgins wrote:
>
>> During testing of updates to qemu, and x11-driver-video-qxl,
>> it has become very clear that no-one could possibly be using
>> these packages, as they are so slow, as to be useless.
>
> Qemu (or rather each qemu-system-*) is an emulator at its core, so
> slowness is not a huge surprise. You probably wanted to run it in (fast)
> virtualization mode - use qemu-kvm for that (and the kvm module for your
> cpu must be loaded to get virtualization working). But running qemu
> directly is tiresome, try virt-manager - it works about as well as
> virtualbox even if I need to run it as root. I use virt-manager/qemu-kvm
> to build+test mga2 updates for iceape, only graphics (spice+vmvga) is slow
> (but better than vnc+cirrus).

Thanks, I'll take a look at virt-manager.

Regards, Dave Hodgins