On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:17:17PM +0000, Orion wrote: > Sorry for the delay in responding Guido. For some reason, I didn't > receive your follow-up message in my inbox. Sorry for the delay on my end. > > Anyway, the following command re-produces the error. > > kvm -cdrom fdbasecd.iso -boot d > > Since SDL seems to be used by default, then I would imagine this is the > SDL output. However, the same is true of QEMU and the following command > does not suffer this problem. > > qemu -cdrom fdbasecd.iso -boot d > > I'm now using KVM 72+dfsg-4 with the same version of the kernel module > on a standard 2.6.26 Debian kernel. QEMU version 0.9.1-10 is in use. There are problems with real mode emulation on intel chips. I think this is what hits you (things should probably look better on an amd machine).
There have been improvements with recent kvm versions but I don't think it's really fixed yet. I just checked with kvm 83 and it's still slower than qemu. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
