Re: [Xen-users] Re: hvm dapper install slow

[Nawal Husnoo <galileon@xxxxxxxxx>]

i'd say choose the safe grafics mode from the bootup menu when the cd 
boots up in your virtual machine

Gregory Gee wrote:
>   How did you do that?
>
> Greg
>
> Randall Smith wrote:
> > Great Discovery!  DISABLE THE FRAME BUFFER on installation.
> >
> > Randall
> >
> > Randall Smith wrote:
> > > I've got an AM2 Athlon64 X2 (it's nice) and attempting to install 
> > > systems using HVM.  I installed WindowsXP and that went OK.  I'm now 
> > > installing Ubuntu 6.06 and it's painfully slow.
> > > The host is running Debian Etch with the included Xen packages.  
> > > I've got host ram set to 512M and the system has 2G.
> > > My config looks like this:
> > >
> > > arch_libdir='lib64'
> > > kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> > > builder="hvm"
> > > name="rdapper"
> > > #vcpus=1
> > > memory = 512
> > > disk    = ['phy:/dev/vg1/rdapper,ioemu:hda,w', ]
> > > cdrom='/home/randall/ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-amd64.iso-1'
> > > boot='d'
> > > on_poweroff = 'destroy'
> > > on_reboot   = 'destroy'
> > > on_crash    = 'destroy'
> > > device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> > > snapshot = 0
> > > #soundhw='sb16'
> > > #usb=1
> > > sdl=1
> > > vnc=0
> > >
> > > Any idea why it is so slow and if anything can be done about it.  
> > > It's currently formatting the hd with ext3 and is at 15% after about 
> > > 10 minutes.
> > > Randall
> >
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