Re: poor scrolling in qemu-kvm

[Federico Beffa]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Federico Beffa <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experimenting with the system in a qemu-kvm virtual machine. I
> created an image and successfully booted. However, scrolling of the
> display is unusably slow (e.g. displaying dmesg). The same problem is
> also visible in Ludovic's presentation
>
> http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2014/2014-08--courtes--were-building-the-gnu-system--ghm.webm
>
> at about min. 41.
>
> For comparison I run an ubuntu live cd (in text mode) and it performs very 
> well.
>
> Have someone found out the reason for this poor performance in
> qemu-kvm and how to fix it?
>

Interestingly, under X the system performs pretty well. So, its a text
mode problem.

Fede