qemu wicked slow in F9

[Chris Snook]

Justin Conover wrote:
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> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Justin Conover 
> <justin.conover at gmail.com <mailto:justin.conover at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Justin Conover
>     <justin.conover at gmail.com <mailto:justin.conover at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         Two different box's I have tried virt-manager with qemu on F9
>         has been moving wicked slow.
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>           PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ 
>         COMMAND      
>         13327 root      20   0 1112m 1.0g 1920 R 95.4 26.7   6:49.61
>         qemu-system-x86  
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>     After awhile it appears to lock up so I kill qemu.
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> Selecting "kvm" instead of qemu seems to help performance and the 
> install actually finishes.
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>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
> COMMAND           
>  4706 root      20   0  632m 537m  17m S 23.3 13.5   1:15.40 qemu-kvm 
> 

Software emulation is SLOW.  Use KVM if you can.

-- Chris