On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> I am busy setting up some XEN servers on a SAN for high availability
> and Cloud Computing, and thought it could be cool to setup
> virtualization on a CentOS 5.5 Desktop, running on a Core i3 + 4GB
> RAM [...]
>
> So, I installed CentOS + KDE, chose the Virtualization package and
> used Virtual Machine Manager to setup another CentOS VM inside CentOS
> (I only have a CentOS ISO on this SAN, since we don't use Debian /
> Slackware / FC / Ubuntu / etc). The installation was probably about
> the same speed as it would be on raw hardware. But, using the
> interface is painfully slow. I opened up Firefox and browsed the web a
> bit. The mouse cursor lagged a bit and whenever I loaded a slow /
> large website, it seemed asif the whole VM lagged behind.
>
> The Virtual Machine didn't use much resources. I allocated 1CPU core &
> 512MB RAM to it
I've never allocated less than 1 GB RAM to a VM with an active GUI,
but I suspect that RAM crunch is part of the problem.
Install CentOS 5 on raw hardware with 512 MB RAM and try running
Firefox...
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