Re: [coLinux-users] How to speed up coLinux

[Brendan S. <Br...@Br...>]

Found the setup on the wiki :)
    
http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/UserConfigs#Networking_with_SLIRP_.28for_Internet.29_and_TAP_.28for_X_server.29

I can confirm that this works a million times (approximately) better 
than slirp.  This was with Xming/XDMCP.  I suspect VNC over TAP will be 
pretty good too.

My next step was to try out K/QEMU but now I can put that on hold unless 
something else comes up ;-)  USB ???

Thanks, Brendan.


Brendan Simon wrote:
> I will have a go at the dual slirp/tap solution.
>
> I tried Xming with slirp and things like xeyes and xcalc seem to work 
> very well indeed, however, my GNOME session took forever to fire up.  
> I mean a very very long time.  I couldn't believe it to tell you the 
> truth.  VNC was much faster.  All I can think of is that the X 
> protocol is not very efficient for things like GNOME and it ends up 
> being better to use VNC (over slow network connections such as SLIRP).
>
> I suspect TAP will be much better and hopefully that will make GNOME 
> more usable :)
>
> Cheers, Brendan.
>
>
> George P Boutwell wrote:
>> Brendan Simon wrote:
>>  
>>> But I still don't understand why coLinux or VNC is sooooo slow.
>> Having said this, the easiest & fastest mechanism that we (several
>> core developers & core community members) have found to work for both
>> Internet & network-based X/VNC display is to use eth0=SliRP for Internet
>> and eth1=tap for X/VNC.  That is to say that SLiRP is used to allow an
>> virtually 0 configuration internet connection, even when switching
>> interfaces, moving around as is common with laptops.  While having a
>> static configuration with the TAP device for X/VNC.
>>   
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