RHEL 6.4 KVM Guest running extremely slowly
Issue
- There is a slow response from the VM using virt-viewer.
- There is an inability to ssh into the guest.
- The VM only sees 3 GB of RAM.
- The VM takes approximately 20 minutes to boot.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or later - Host
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or later - KVM Guest
- QEMU Hypervisor
- IDE Disk
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