Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/9/19 4:51 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Someone has some performance comparison between the two virtualization system? Can you post the content of /etc/libvirt/qemu/.xml? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an em

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/19 1:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:20:05 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: what specifically is the slowdown? From my highly non-scientific and inexact testing, the virtual disks have better I/O performance in virtualbox and in vmware. Since qemu has 47 gazillion different fo

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 16:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:20:05 -0700 > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > what specifically is the > > slowdown? > > From my highly non-scientific and inexact testing, the > virtual disks have better I/O performance in virtualbox > and in vmware. Since

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:20:05 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > what specifically is the > slowdown? From my highly non-scientific and inexact testing, the virtual disks have better I/O performance in virtualbox and in vmware. Since qemu has 47 gazillion different format virtual disks, I have no idea whi

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/19 4:51 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: After few days my friend say me that the win10 is slow and less efficient than same installation on another PC with VirtualBox. He told me "virtualbox is better and faster" I have heard this statement in other cases in the past and the only solution (sig!)

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/19 7:51 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: [ ] qxl/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 7 and earlier. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-1 and later) [ ] qxldod/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 8 and later. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-2 and later) Why don't you install the graphics drivers? That could def

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 5:52 AM Dario Lesca wrote: > > There is some other solution to optimize qemu/kvm on Fedora to increase > the performance for win10 VM? > I'd like to know as well. I have tried KVM periodically, but the performance is always horrible with Windows VMs, and since having a pla

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:51:29 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > is this correct ? or I must install also other drivers? That looks like all the ones I have, so you probably do have about as good performance as you are likely to get (as far as I know anyway, lots of people probably know more about qemu th

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 09/04/2019 alle 09.06 -0400, Tom Horsley ha scritto: > You should certainly install all the redhat virtualdrivers for disks > and network if you haven't already: > https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers Thank for reply, but when I have install w10 I have mount the virti

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:51:27 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > There is some other solution to optimize qemu/kvm on Fedora to increase > the performance for win10 VM? You should certainly install all the redhat virtual drivers for disks and network if you haven't already: https://www.linux-kvm.org/page

Re: Thunar confused by kernel 5.0.5

2019-04-09 Thread David Dusanic
Sam Varshavchik: Is anyone running XFCE seeing Thunar being very confused when booting kernel 5.0.5? Mine no longer automounts my removable usb storage mp3 player. As a consolation prize, of sorts, Thunar informs me that /boot, /home, /sys, and the like, are removable volumes, and shows a folde

Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Dario Lesca
On a i7+16Gb+SSD notebook of a my friend I have install Fedora 29 workstation (all work fine! ... thank to all!) and into qemu/kvm/libvirtd via virt-manager I have install a win10pro with all virtio driver (disk, network, ecc..). After few days my friend say me that the win10 is slow and less effi

Re: 30 upgrade does not take

2019-04-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 21:59 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 4/8/19 9:53 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Well, this time it did the updates after rebooting, buttt > > > then I got: > > > > > >Minimal BASH-link line editing is supported