Re: Minimizing qemu causes it to slow down

2021-01-20 Thread gunnar.wagner
I am a novice like yourself ... Can it be that the guest OS is going to "hibernate" or "suspend" or so automatically after a defined period of inactivity and you just misinterpret this as kvm/qemu behavior? best ... Gunnar On 20.01.21 08:20, Asad Ali wrote: > I am a novice using qemu to run LUbu

Re: Minimizing qemu causes it to slow down

2021-01-20 Thread Christopher William Snowhill
I think what they're observing, and I may be wrong, is that either their desktop environment, or Qemu, or their OS, is de-prioritizing Qemu when it loses foreground focus, and causing it to see timer events and processing time at a much lower priority than when it is in the foreground. Alternat

Minimizing qemu causes it to slow down

2021-01-20 Thread Asad Ali
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Minimizing qemu causes it to slow down

2021-01-20 Thread Asad Ali
I am a novice using qemu to run LUbuntu in a Mac osx host. I used this guide https://graspingtech.com/ubuntu-desktop-18.04-virtual-machine-macos-qemu/ Using this I can run the LUbuntu VM. However, if I minimize the qemu window or simply not have it as the active window, the vm slows down to a halt

Re: Minimizing qemu causes it to slow down

2021-01-20 Thread Asad Ali
> I am a novice like yourself ... > Can it be that the guest OS is going to "hibernate" or "suspend" or so automatically after a defined period of inactivity and you just misinterpret this as kvm/qemu behavior? > best ... Gunnar In order to remove this possibility, I ran the following command in m

Re: Strange behavior by qemu and the VM console.

2021-01-20 Thread Philipp Ammann
Hi George, did you recently upgrade your DE or mess with your DPI settings? In the GTK window, there's an option "zoom to fit" (or similar, I don't have it in front of me ATM). Make sure that is disabled. Best regards Philipp Am 20.01.21 um 20:45 schrieb George R Goffe: > Hi, > > This system