Update on VirtualBox and KVM (was: dual booting)

[William Park]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 01:07:38PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Lennart.  I found that "-usb tablet" cannot scroll.  Anyways, latest
KVM (0.12.2) with "-usb mouse" made things much better and useable.
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William



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