[kwlug-disc] KVM

[Kyle Spaans]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:40 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:32:51PM -0500, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:49:51PM -0800, William Park wrote:
>>
>> > For speed, forget it.  They are dog slow.
>>
>> I thought one of the selling points of KVM was to take advantage of
>> the VTx extensions?
>>
>> Do you know what makes them slow? RAM? Hard disk contention?
>
> Try installing your current distro inside VM, and compare that with what
> you remember when you installed it natively.  You'll give up, too.

Probably the GUI is to blame?