Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Core 2 very slow

[Fabrice Bellard]

Sorry for this dumb question, but are you using a 2.6 host kernel or did 
you do the 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' which is 
written when you launch QEMU ? Otherwise, you have no change of using a 
2.6 based guest OS...

Fabrice.

ben wrote:
> After install fediora is still slow :
> Only some functions like sleep take 10x the real time.
> tried to boot with different clocks
> clock=pit
> clock=hpet
> acpi=off
> tried to boot with different kernels :
> - 2.6.5.1.358
> - 2.6.6.1.435
> - 2.6.7.1.437
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> Is the problem Windows host specific ?
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> Host : Win XP
> Guest : Fedora core 2
> qemu 0.5.6
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> ben a écrit :
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> > On windows while booting i ve got a message "TSC cannot be used as a 
> > timesource"
> > and then computer is very slow.
> > It seems that there s a problem with clock timing in fedora and others 
> > kernel.
> > I managed to make it faster with this boot option at the prompt
> >    linux clock=hpet
> > (found with google)
> > I m searching for the most appropriate setinng for clock.
> >
> > Host : Win XP
> > qemu 0.5.6
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> > Jean-Michel POURE a écrit :
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> > > > I tried it as well, and IMHO, to say that it is very slow is a very
> > > > delicate understatement. I've tried giving it more RAM, but it is
> > > > nonetheless unbelievably slow.
> > > >   
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear friends,
> > >
> > > For debugging purpose, I uploaded an 833 Mb image of Fedora Core-2 to:
> > > http://www.poure.com/qemu/fedora-c2.img.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Installing a Fedora Core 2 distro can take up to 10 hours (also very 
> > > slow!).Downloading will save you a lot of time. After unpacking, you 
> > > can boot the image with the following parameters:
> > >
> > > qemu -hda fedora-c2.img -boot c -m 128 -pci -cirrusvga -user-net
> > >
> > > The upload is intended for people willing to understand the bugs 
> > > #9373 and #9374 entered on http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=qemu
> > >
> > > Also I contacted Stefano to participate in the OS Zoo project. We are 
> > > going to work in team to provide ready-to-run images for a wide 
> > > variety of OSes.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Jean-Michel Pouré
> > >
> > >
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