Cole Robinson wrote:
I use "ubuntu hardy" but I dont think the problem is specific to the distribution I use.
I installed KVM and libvirt as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM
Following that method, created a domain, which dumps like this: <domain type='qemu' id='1'> <name>xp1</name> ... </domain>
Specifically what tool did you use to install the VM? That tutorial lists several different methods.
$ sudo virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n xp1 \ -r 512 -f xp1.qcow2 -s 12 -c xp.iso --vnc \ --noautoconsole --os-type windows --os-variant winxp
Launching the guest is OK, but it is as slow as if I directly launched $ qemu [options] I tried to launch: $ kvm [options] and it is much faster My conclusion is that method on the Ubuntu documentation launches a qemu without the use of kvm. I modified that XML dump, changing "qemu" with "kvm": <domain type='kvm' id='1'> <name>xp1</name> ... </domain> You can't just change the domain type, you also have to change the emulator tag. My guess is, this new 'kvm' command is still using the plain qemu emulator and not '/usr/bin/kvm'
Great! I changed it and it runs! I really did not see it.
Hope that helps,
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