Re: qemu slowness
jeremy jozwik wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:48 PM, jeremy jozwik<jerjoz.forums@gmail.com> wrote:
>> so i figured this would be a nice time to setup a virtual machine. so
>> ive been poking around with qemu.
>
> also, what is the pro / con of qemu and virtualBox, which i just
> noticed is listen in the mail list
VirtualBox provides a nice GUI that makes it easy to set up the VM,
disks, and networking support. Also, it only works with a kernel-level
helper (qemu can use kqemu to provide this), so it has the performance
benefits of the dynamic rewriting rather than emulation (without kqemu,
qemu is an emulator rather than a virtualizer).
The hardware virtualization (display, etc.) also feels more robust in
VirtualBox in my experience.
If you really want to use qemu, then make sure you're using kqemu or kvm
(which isn't qemu, but uses qemu's user interface).
- Michael
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