On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 00:59 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while > > on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image > > disc from her machine to mine, but QEMU eats my CPU. > > Perhaps it's a difference in processor features. Newer CPUs from > Intel and AMD contain special virtualization instructions that make > running a VM much easier, and somewhat faster. Maybe she has such a > chip and you don't?
Nope. To take advantage of this you need KVM, which is a fork of qemu. What's more these hardware instructions are in their early incarnations and in many cases, given the horsepower of the machines featuring these instructions, using traditional software-based virtualization (VirtualBox, VMware, or qemu+kqemu) is smoother and faster. > ----Scott. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
