QEMU-KVM video slow

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 08:39:27PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I've managed to get a 32-bit Gentoo linux run^H^H^H crawling in QEMU
> on a 64-bit Gentoo host OS.  The "text console" video scrolling is
> painfully slow.  Anybody here familiar with QEMU-KVM?  My questions...
> 1) how to speed up its video?
> 2) how do I enable cut-n-paste between guest and host
> 3) how do I turn off the "screensaver"?  Normally that's a good feature,
>    but not for a Window under X <G>
> 
>   I'll be using it mainly for running one antenna-modelling Windows app
> under WINE.  I built 64-bit Gentoo on the host without optional 32-bit
> support libraries.  Then I found out that WINE does not run in 64-bit
> linux without 32-bit support... oops.  It would take a complete
> re-install of Gentoo to build with 32-bit support in 64-bit mode.  I
> decided that it was less painfull to do a 32-bit Gentoo install in
> qemu-kvm, and run WINE in there.
> 
>   While we're at it, are there any end-user mailing lists or user groups
> for QEMU-KVM?

There are multiple choices for video emulation.  Some are much better
than others in kvm.  Try one of the others.

I of course always use vnc, which may also affect performance of video
in different ways.

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