On 03/01/2010 03:12 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
kvm -m 512 -cdrom /home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/iso/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso -drive file=/home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-0086OD.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on -usb -usbdevice tablet -net nic,model=virtio -net user -soundhw es1370 Among these: * 512MB is a nice step up from the 128MB by default (this one scales based on your hosts memory)
I'm not opposed to bumping from 128M to something else. I'd like to see some indication though other than "seems reasonable" as to what the value should be. For instance, if a Fedora 12 install doesn't work without 256M, that's a solid argument to bump the allocation. Short term, I'd like to see this globally configurable.
* virtio is used for disk and network for nice performance gains
The problem with virtio is that very few OSes have the drivers right now. For networking, we can do better, and I've just written a spec for a new feature to attempt to address this[1]. For disk, I think we're stuck with ide as the default for a long time.
* usb device tablet greatly improves the mouse experience
Defaulting usb to on and defaulting to a usb tablet is a reasonable thing to do IMHO.
* sound card added
This personally would annoy me but if there was wide consensus that this was right, I'd be okay with it.
* qcow2 sparse disk image
This is independent of qemu.
* desktop is 1024 x 720
1024x768 and this is what the default is today anyway. [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/NetDeviceFailover Regards, Anthony Liguori -- 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
