Re: Finally finished - Re: New to building VMs. Build stalled at 597/1241

2014-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:53:21 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Please explain. What is this 'disk cache mode' you speak of? Is it > part of the virutal machinery or my base installed OS? In virt-manager when you look at the VM properties (the light bulb icon), you can select different bits of vi

Re: Finally finished - Re: New to building VMs. Build stalled at 597/1241

2014-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/31/2014 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:44:11 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Took a number of hours. That may be a sign that the disk cache mode isn't set right. I find that "writeback" speeds things up a lot compared to some of the other settings. Please explain.

Re: Finally finished - Re: New to building VMs. Build stalled at 597/1241

2014-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:44:11 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Took a number of hours. That may be a sign that the disk cache mode isn't set right. I find that "writeback" speeds things up a lot compared to some of the other settings. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Finally finished - Re: New to building VMs. Build stalled at 597/1241

2014-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Finally finished. Took a number of hours. And the screen went from 597/1241 message to finished. On 12/31/2014 11:37 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have finally buckled down to learn to make a VM. Now I probably bit off a bit much. I am installing from my local repo. For some reason it sai

New to building VMs. Build stalled at 597/1241

2014-12-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have finally buckled down to learn to make a VM. Now I probably bit off a bit much. I am installing from my local repo. For some reason it said this is a test image. My netinst to this notebook did not say that. Something MAY be left over in my repo from the beta. I then specified the UR