Well I haven't done any testing, but I have a feeling that using virtio drivers makes qemu faster. But I agree that using a desktop is faster with vbox. Atleast using the mouse :D
Petri Rosenström On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/28/2010 03:21 AM, Petri Rosenström wrote: >> >> I think it requires HVM ( egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo ) >> from the CPU. So if kvm doesn't work you may use your VMs with qemu. >> Qemu/kvm supports VMware disc format so you might be able to use your >> old VMs without much effort. > > I find that vbox is *much* faster than qemu in the absence of hardware > virtualization support. The vbox devs say their graphics driver is what > makes it faster. > > > >
