On 03/13/10 09:54, Avi Kivity wrote: > > If the slowdown is indeed due to I/O, LVM (with cache=off) should > eliminate it completely. > As promised I have installed LVM: The difference is remarkable. My test case (running 8 vhosts in parallel, each building a Linux kernel) just works. There is no blocking job (by now), all vhosts can be pinged, great. Many thanx for your help, and for the nice software, of course. Regards Harri -- 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