Virtual Machines on Fedora
 

Guys,

I am attempting to put some Virtual Machines on my Fedora13 box.

Using KVM it just doesn't want to work quickly.... Using the v.14 LiveCD to try and install an image onto the virtual machine... took over 15 mins to get to a login screen, then I gave up attempting to log in after 5 mins from clicking the login button.

I assigned the virtual box to have 1024Mb RAM and access to both CPU.

I then decided to sack it off and try and install VirtualBox... this has been a disaster. I know it's due to the fact that it wont run alongside KVM, and I've disabled KVM (as far as I am aware) - but it's still FAILING on using DKMS (Or whatever it's called - not got the error open at the mo).

Soo... basically.. am I doing something wrong causing the system to run so ridiculously slowly, and how am I being thick for VirtualBox to fail to install??

If you have any other suggestions on how to get a virtual machine to run on my box then I'm more than happy to hear! I don't care how they run - as long as they run!

Cheers Guys
Mike

Guess you could try one more. See VMplayer.

I'd guess the system is not fully VM supported. What processor and motherboard do you have? One some bios's there might be an option to enable VT or such.

It's an Intel Pentium 4 3.20 GHz on an Intel Corp board.

Just had a quick flick through BIOS on the machine, no virtualisation stuff stands out - so assuming there isn't an option for it?

Anyway, it's now bedtime. I'll give it a go tomorrow and see if it works.

Cheers

It might help to know what the error is.

There is no Pentium 4 processor with a clock-speed of 3,2 GHz that supports virtualization by hardware. That may be the reason that virtualization is slow, but at least you should be able to install Virtualbox. But to help you we need the error-messages.

Not original poster, but doesn't Qemu work with hardware that doesn't actually support virtualization?

Only older versions have the accelerator kernel module. With newer versions you are able to virtualize without hardware support, but it is awfully slow.

I had a 3.2 P4. It was a laptop and ran VM's pretty good.

Sorry guys, was mad busy and didnt have time to wait for an error to appear - that is actually how slow it was.

Took primary advice on installing VMPlayer and all is fine :-).

Marked as solved. Thanks for all your time!