Howdy! A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for himself. I have no such trouble.
We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Phenom-II with 8GB RAM, nVidia video. He has a dual Athlon with 3GB RAM, ATI video (and recently bought and tried an nVidia AGP card). Both CPUs support HV. I use KDE. He uses Gnome. I wrote a bash script that greatly simplifies and greatly automates configuring and running KVM VMs while avoiding network/vdisk collisions among them. Using that script, I can run many VMs without trouble. They all start and operate fast. My friend can only run one at fast (normal) speed. The next VM will almost never get around to starting; the video simply won't respond. But if I tell it 'vga=none' and use a serial console, the VM inits slower than normal, but then the serial console runs at normal speed. I am at a loss to explain. He had the same problem on an older system using qemu (no KVM) on an athlon that did not support HV. If this a known problem with a solution, would someone kindly point me in the right direction? If it is not a known problem, what data are needed to root out the cause? Does anyone have any idea why I'd have no trouble and he'd have nothing but? Hmmm. I just remembered a tiny bit of something. A while back (a year or two) I had to DL and install an updated kvm/qemu BIOS, video interface, or something like that, before KVM would behave acceptably. Could it be related to that? Thanks, Neal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203081852.03966.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
