[Libguestfs] libguestfs-1.0.85-1.el5.5 - seems no KVM acceleration support included

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:26:24PM +0300, Active Systems OÜ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I couldnt find any appropriate bugzilla - so I'll post directly to you. There seems to be a problem with EPEL repo libguestfs-1.0.85-1.el5.5 rpm (x86_64) - for example it is very slow with VM filesystem copy as it does not make use of KVM acceleration (running plain qemu).
> Running libguestfs-test-tool reveals that libguestfs is looking for /dev/kqemu and ofcourse its not there in case of CentOS/RHEL (5.4).  Im not yet entirely sure why it does not use KVM - but I guess it can be missing from build already. We are trying to rebuild src rpm on CentOS 5.4 but encountering still some (probably dependency) problems.
> 

Does this help?

http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#slow

Rich.

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