Update on VirtualBox and KVM (was: dual booting)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 04:52:09PM -0800, William Park wrote:
> TigerDirect has a sale on quad-core Phenom X4 2.4GHz 125W,
> so I bought it to upgrade my single-core Athlon 64 2.4GHz 45W.
> 
> After doing some kernel compiles, I saw 4x speedup in both native
> and virtual machines.  Ball-park benchmark is that virtual machines
> are 50% slower than native machine, and that VirtualBox and KVM
> are about the same.  Well, at least, for kernel compiles.  KVM's 
> video/mouse driver are dog slow...

Video might be.  Mouse seems fine.  At least when using -vga std and
the usb tablet options.

The default vga (cirrus logic) doesn't work as well in my opinion.

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Len Sorensen
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