[virt-tools-list] Windows 7 guest installed and runs slow in Linux Host

[Daniel Huhardeaux]

Le 09/08/2014 22:15, stephen constantinou a écrit :
> Dear Daniel
>
> Thanks for that.  I was not sure what this meant but I thought I would
> have a look.  So I went to View > Details > IDE Disk 1 > Advanced
> Options > the Disk bus was set to IDE with two other options to select
> of SCSI and USB.
>
> Am I already IDE drivers or is your advice about some other setting?

Try it the other way, install virtio drivers for hdd (which should be 
the usual)

>
> On 9 August 2014 15:08, Daniel Huhardeaux <tech at tootai.net> wrote:
>> Le 09/08/2014 14:54, stephen constantinou a écrit :
>>>
>>> Dear All
>>>
>>> I am a refugee from Virtual Box, which I have used a lot on Linux
>>> hosts to run windows XP then 7.  Recently, I had reason to reinstall
>>> Linux and chose to reinstall VB as well.  However, installation of
>>> Windows 7 failed and I have posted support requests to the message
>>> board.  However, I have not received any replies.
>>>
>>> So after a lot of looking around I decided to try Virtual Machine Manager
>>> 0.9.5.
>>>
>>> I have managed to install Windows 7 but installation was very slow.
>>> Windows 7 runs very slow as well.  I am concerned I have missed
>>> something or done something wrong.
>>>
>>> I am using Kubuntu 14.04, 32Bit host with 4GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD,
>>> and Virtual Machine Manager 0.9.5, and Windows 7 guest. I have
>>> allocated 1024 MB RAM and 50 GB HDD to the guest.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated
>>
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> had same problem with w7 and solve it by using IDE drivers instead of
>> virtio's one.
>>
>>
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>> Daniel
>> TOOTAi Networks
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