Comment 13 for bug 239355

Hi All

The problem seems has been fixed in Intrepid, I have successfully install
CentOS 5.2 :-)

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Dustin Kirkland
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I tried to reproduce this on an Intrepid host (amd64), where I installed
> CentOS 4.7 (x86_64).
>
> The installation proceeded quickly and smoothly, and completed without
> error.
>
> And it's running without a problem.
>
> I did, however, use a qcow disk image, created with:
> * qemu-img create -f qcow2 centos4.7.img 4G
> rather than the dedicated disk partition that others have tried.
>
> I will attempt to reproduce this again with that setup.
>
>
> :-Dustin
>
> --
> KVM very, very slow with RedHat and Solaris guests
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239355
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>
> Status in "kvm" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kvm
>
> Hello,
> I'm using a 32 bit Hardy 8.04 desktop with an Intel Core2Quad processor,
> and I've come across a problem with KVM.
>
> VT is enabled in my computer's BIOS, and the kvm modules are loaded:
> $ lsmod | grep kvm
> kvm_intel 36032 1
> kvm 115252 1 kvm_intel
>
> I am able to create a new Ubuntu Hardy guest using KVM, and it works very
> well.
>
> If I try to create other guests based on Red Hat or Solaris, then guest
> runs extremely slowly and eventually hangs. I've tried a CentOS 5 guest
> install several times now. With each install, I've been booting the guest
> from a local DVD ISO file. The guest does boot the iso, but runs extremely
> slowly. I left a CentOS 5 guest install running for 18 hours now... during
> that time, I still haven't made it to anaconda. So far, I've only made it
> past the text based media check used by RHEL.
> Same with Solaris - the guest hangs right after the installer starts.
>
> I've attached a screenshot of Console 4 output inside a CentOS 5 guest
> during install. If I left this running overnight, the "DSC: timeout"
> messages would stack up and fill the screen. Console 1 will simply be frozen
> at "Starting anaconda..."
>
> During these very slow guest installs and hangs, guest CPU utilization is
> about 1%, and the host CPU utilization has been very low as well.
>
> Pleas let me know what other info I can provide.
>
> Thanks!
>

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Best Regards !

Frank Wang (王洪源)