I resolved the clock skew issue on my Server 2003 VM with the following: -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew
in place of: -localtime -Russ Mobile message. Excuse the typos. On Dec 4, 2011, at 7:07 PM, "Matt Connolly" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running a Windows 7 guest under qemu-kvm on OI 151 and have a few > problems: > > 1. clock drift - this seems really bad, losing about 30 minutes in an hour. > 2. very slow networking from the guest to the rest of the network. > > My script for starting the vm is like this: > > VNIC=vnic2 > MAC=$(dladm show-vnic -po macaddress $VNIC) > /usr/bin/qemu-kvm \ > -boot order=cd \ > -runas matt \ > -enable-kvm \ > -smp 2 \ > -m 2048 \ > -no-hpet \ > -localtime \ > -drive file=$DISK0,if=ide,index=0 \ > -drive file=$DISK1,if=ide,index=1 \ > -drive file=$CDROM,media=cdrom,if=ide,index=2 \ > -net nic,vlan=0,name=net0,model=e1000,macaddr=$MAC \ > -net vnic,vlan=0,name=net0,ifname=$VNIC,macaddr=$MAC \ > -usbdevice tablet \ > -vga std -vnc 0.0.0.0:2 > > > The network issues seems to be only outgoing packets. The guest VM can > connect to the internet and local servers and download at reasonable speeds, > but running any kind of service on the machine appears so slow that they time > out to other devices on the network. I've tested this out with RDP, HTTP > (wamp) and file sharing - all services appear online and connections succeed, > but they are so slow they eventually fail (timeout). > > For example, copying a 200MB file from a network drive into the Windows guest > takes about 5 seconds. Copying the same file back to the server looks like it > will take 15 hours. > > Network bandwidth to the OI host is fine, and using VNC (from qemu) is snappy > as can be. Additionally none of these problems can be seen running a linux > guest virtual machine. > > Has anyone experienced these problems? > > > Thanks, > Matt > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
