<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Richard W.M. Jones wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20080508155150.GA32379@amd.home.annexia.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:47:38AM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""># dmesg | grep -i kvm # </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yeah, I was a bit confused here. KVM used to print a kernel message when it was loaded, but I've noticed that the latest version doesn't. Is the kvm module loaded? eg. on my Intel system: # /sbin/lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 30784 0 kvm 108376 1 kvm_intel As for why it's slow ... Try a single virtual CPU to start with, since support for SMP guests in KVM is pretty new (less than 8 months old IIRC). Rich. </pre> </blockquote> <tt>Here's what I found so far: In BIOS there is a setting "AMD Cool n Quiet". I thought this was some type of fan thing. It is not. It controls the cpu speed. So I disable this and now dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo both show same at 2510 MHz. And I try creating a new F9 VM with 1 VCPU. The install now seems to run at a normal speed but still I cannot get F9 to install in VM. It says partition table on /dev/sda is unreadable and it needs to initialize. So I say yes and it sits there for about 10 mins until it give you an error (i/o error on device) retry,ignore,cancel. No choice helps. So I try with F7 as well and same thing, it cannot initialize the virtual drive (mine is file-based). Regards, Gerry </tt> </body> </html>