On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
First of all make sure that you have the following device:
$ ls -l /dev/kvm crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 2010-06-12 04:01 /dev/kvm
yes there exists /dev/kvm (I had to install qemu-kvm)
Secondly, your "userid" should be part of group "kvm"
I think so.. (tweaked it in gnome "System" > "Administration" > "Users and Group")
Thirdly open up a terminal window and start up "top" to observe resource consumption
Should i post top's output? Its lengthy (CPU usage shoots upto 20-30% while booting with livecd but drops down when vm is not in use)
Fourthly start a LiveCD Guest OS in a KVM environment.
I can boot with livecd with gnome in 45 secs. I tried ubuntu 9.10 i386 I can see the live gnome desktop
I believe it works for Phenom+780G, my desktop
I also have a laptop with Athlon X2 and nvidia chipset Acer Aspire 4530 cpuinfo has svm /dev/kvm is present It also boots livecd with same command
Revant