Hi, I installed F21 alpha today and I am trying to avoid 3rd party repos. So VirtualBox is out.

I am giving QEMU a go without much joy. From a look at:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Images

I need to create an image in which to host the VM and then boot into it. I create an image thus:

Then I kick off the VM (I also tried boot -d with the same results):

Now I have a reasonably healthy system with 8GB of RAM, F21 itself flies however QEMU is pretty slow – something like 15m to bring up the live OS (VirtualBox under F20 took something like 20s). And then when I get a Gnome desktop the lag between clicking an icon and actually seeing a response can be measured in 10s of seconds rather than anything like instantaneous. Long enough for you to wonder whether the keyclick was actually acknowledged. In fact I will go so far as to say it is unusable.

So, I must be getting something wrong.

Any tips on how to create an image and boot up the system I would be grateful. Am I missing something?

Cheers

Hi,

are you using KVM? See http://wiki.qemu.org/KVM

Evo2.

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No I wasn't. I added

to the qemu-system-x86_64 command and the live OS came up in the blinking of an eye I am just on my way out so I don't think I'll get a chance to read up further this evening. I'll get onto it in the morning.

Thanks