Am 17.10.2012 02:53, schrieb Cole Robinson: > Your guest config up thread looked fine AFAICT. But then I've never tried to > run a kernel-2.2 VM. > > The OS type in virt-manager for linux 2.4 vs. generic isn't going to make much > difference either. > > Maybe try switch the CPU model to some older type CPUs pentium2 etc, whatever > was common around the time of that release. Perhaps also try switch domain > type="qemu", occasionally kvm can interfere with things. > > Barring any of those, I'd try and build a qemu command line by hand that > reproduces the issue, confirm with latest qemu, and mail qemu-devel about your > issue. Thanks for your suggestions, Cole. As you may have read already I was able to solve that issue by enabling DMA for that virtual IDE-drive. This helped to fix the performance problems! Thanks, Stefan