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jeffk
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 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:08 am Post subject: qemu-9999: 1.4.50@05499f4 running much slower than 1.2.50 |
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I noticed today that my local ebuild of qemu-9999 had not pulled changes in quite some weeks. Found qemu-9999 in tree, switched to that. Emerged with use vars as follows, of which systemtapm virtfs usbredir are newly applied, they weren't present/used in my local qemu-9999:
| Code: | : % sudo emerge qemu -pv
: [ebuild R *] app-emulation/qemu-9999 USE="aio alsa caps curl fdt jpeg ncurses
: opengl png pulseaudio python sasl seccomp spice systemtap threads tls usbredir
: uuid vde vhost-net virtfs vnc xattr -bluetooth -brltty -debug -doc -mixemu -rbd
: -sdl (-selinux) -smartcard -static -tci -xen -xfs" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64
: -alpha -arm -cris -i386 -lm32 -m68k -microblaze -microblazeel -mips -mips64
: -mips64el -mipsel -or32 -ppc -ppc64 -ppcemb -s390x -sh4 -sh4eb -sparc -sparc64
: -unicore32 -xtensa -xtensaeb" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="-alpha -arm -armeb -cris -i386
: -m68k -microblaze -microblazeel -mips -mipsel -or32 -ppc -ppc64 -ppc64abi32
: -s390x -sh4 -sh4eb -sparc -sparc32plus -sparc64 -unicore32 -x86_64" 0 kB |
| Code: | : grep -i kvm kernel-config-x86_64-3.7.8-gentoo
: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y
: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD=y
: CONFIG_KVM_APIC_ARCHITECTURE=y
: CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y
: CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF=y
: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_MSI=y
: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT=y
: CONFIG_KVM=m
: CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m
: # CONFIG_KVM_AMD is not set |
qemu git head is at commit 05499f4b9fd431631299dc1b70156dbc1fb4331.
| Code: | : lsmod |grep kvm
: kvm_intel 115063 0
: kvm 233708 1 kvm_intel |
Windows XP HAL selected is:
| Code: | | : "ACPI Multiprocessor PC," ACPI APIC MP HAL (Halmacpi.dll) |
qemu command line:
| Code: | | : sudo qemu-kvm -m 768 -hda windowsxp01.raw -daemonize -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56,model=virtio -net user -usbdevice tablet -vnc :1 |
My Windows XP VM is running noticeably slower with the new qemu build of 1.4.50 than before at 1.2.50. Its not quite so bad that I don't think hardware virtualization is used, but it's pretty close. I see window/menu redraws in progress. Two cores of my quad-core i5 were pegged (100.3% and 96%) by qemu, with nothing more going on in the VM other than a file transfer. At idle, VM CPU usage is 13-19%, host qemu process in top is about the same at 19%.
- Are any of the above use vars known risks to encounter a performance drop-off like this?
- Am I missing anything in kernel config and/or qemu startup params to avoid performance drop-off?
Thanks for any suggestions.
UPDATE:
After realizing that installing 16 pending windows updates were going to take hours, it was clear something wasn't right. I recompiled without the new use vars, and reemerged qemu-9999. There is no change, it still runs slow. So at least I can rule out the use var changes as causes:
| Code: | : sudo emerge --unmerge usbredir systemtap
: grep qemu -A 1 /etc/portage/package.use
: app-emulation/qemu -sdl fdt qemu-ifup spice vde
: # systemtap tls usbredir virtfs
: sudo emerge qemu |
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syn0ptik
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Joined: 09 Jan 2013
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| qemu 1.2.2, everythings okay, but disk usage is slow. I use xfs for images, the images inside seems fragmented hardly. |
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