On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Prateek Sharma <prateek3...@gmail.com> wrote: > $QEMU -cpu core2duo,+vmx -drive file=$VM_PATH,if=virtio,aio=native > -drive file=viotest.img,if=virtio,index=2
-drive cache=none is typically used for good performance when the image is on a local disk. Try that and I think you'll see an improvement. Stefan