Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
The Ubuntu libvirt had a early version of the patch for supporting
the 'boot=on' parameter - I believe they always use it for any VM
with a domain type of 'kvm'. Since you are using regular QEMU it
is correct that you need to change the domain type to type=qemu
anyway.
My problem if I use "qemu" as domain type is the guest is slow enough to
make me think it doesnt use the kvm.
In the beginning, and in Ubuntu documentation, the domain type is "qemu"
as default.
So, the question that might solve the problems:
How can assume it's realy using kvm (and not just qemu)?
Note: when I launch the guest via the "kvm" command [1], it's faster.
[1] e.g.:
$ kvm -m 512 -hda foo.img -cdrom bar.iso -boot d