On 20/11/2014 17:28, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I'm accustomed to lesser performance on virtual machines. That's the > hazard of a running on old and slow laptop (dell e6400 (2.2ghz core > duo, 8gb ram)[1]) but even virtual box is not this slow. So what am I > doing wrong? It would be nice to use a slow machine like this as many > handcrips don't have a whole lot of resources for buying newer/faster > machines. On the other hand, many of them use desktops and work from one > place whereas someone like me is all over the map (quite literally). How did you start the virtual machine? Perhaps you're not using KVM but emulation? I have a fast machine but slow disk (a NAS on 100 MBit ethernet) and I can do about 15 automated installations in less than 6 hours. Are you using libvirt or directly invoking QEMU? Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
