Month: February 2013

Broken KVM guests with libvirt-1.0.2 on Arch Linux

After recent updates I am no longer able to run KVM guests using libvirt/virsh. I’m not sure if it’s the new dependency on audit (2.2.2-1 at the time of writing) or libvirt-1.0.2-2 itself, but guests fail to start for obscure reasons: # virsh start debian6-dspace error: Failed to start domain debian6-dspace error: internal error process […]

Using SNA acceleration for Xorg

I’ve been getting micro hiccups on Xorg + gnome-shell using Intel HD Graphics for quite some time now; lag when switching virtual desktops, alt-tabbing apps, and even sometimes when typing in the terminal (local, not over SSH!). I’ve noticed it on both this current machine, a Samsung Series 9 NP900X3C with Intel HD 4000 Graphics, […]