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

[Christiaan Welvaart]

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).

Unfortunately people keep updating libvirt, apparently without testing it 
- now it is broken again in cauldron. I need to kill all the qemu-system-* 
and qemu-kvm that libvirtd starts one by one before virt-manager can 
connect.

> There are many problems with xorg crashing, mouse pointer not
> being where the pointer is shown, etc.  These bugs are described
> in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8938

A month ago I updated the spice packages; I also tried to update 
x11-driver-video-qxl (which is part of spice AFAIK) but it did not work at 
all. So if you ask for *that* package to be removed, fine with me.


     Christiaan