jafar
17th June 2010, 01:21 AM
Hi guys
Wondering if one of you KVM / RH virtualization experts can help me out
here.
I am using Fedora 13 as the VM Host (dom0) and I want to host 2 CentOS
5.4 virtual machines on it.
All virtualisation packages have been installed.
The issue now is when I try to create a host, either via virt-manager or
virt-install, it is very very slow.
It is going to take about 3 hours for the install to be done.
I have tried few different things:
1. Copied the ISO file directly to the HD of the machine and use
virt-manager to read that ISO, slow.
2. Ran the web service on the host and copied the content of the ISO
file to it and run the install using the http:// path. Still slow.
I have read that you may need the -accelerate switch, but according to
virt-install man page, this switch is now deprecated.
Machine spec:
ACER Veriton S661 (Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, E6750)
6GB RAM
2TB HDD
Packages installed:
python-virtinst
libvirt
qemu-kvm
virt-manager
virt-viewer
The kernel modules are running:
[root@f13 ~]# modprobe -l | grep kvm
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd.ko
[root@f13 ~]#
Intel VT is enabled on the BIOS:
[root@f13 ~]# grep -i vmx /proc/cpuinfo
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64
ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64
ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority
[root@f13 ~]#
Any ideas?
Wondering if one of you KVM / RH virtualization experts can help me out
here.
I am using Fedora 13 as the VM Host (dom0) and I want to host 2 CentOS
5.4 virtual machines on it.
All virtualisation packages have been installed.
The issue now is when I try to create a host, either via virt-manager or
virt-install, it is very very slow.
It is going to take about 3 hours for the install to be done.
I have tried few different things:
1. Copied the ISO file directly to the HD of the machine and use
virt-manager to read that ISO, slow.
2. Ran the web service on the host and copied the content of the ISO
file to it and run the install using the http:// path. Still slow.
I have read that you may need the -accelerate switch, but according to
virt-install man page, this switch is now deprecated.
Machine spec:
ACER Veriton S661 (Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, E6750)
6GB RAM
2TB HDD
Packages installed:
python-virtinst
libvirt
qemu-kvm
virt-manager
virt-viewer
The kernel modules are running:
[root@f13 ~]# modprobe -l | grep kvm
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko
kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd.ko
[root@f13 ~]#
Intel VT is enabled on the BIOS:
[root@f13 ~]# grep -i vmx /proc/cpuinfo
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64
ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64
ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi
flexpriority
[root@f13 ~]#
Any ideas?
