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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: VT is comically slow
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:16:25 -0400
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To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@amd.com>
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Petersson, Mats wrote:

> Are indications of IDE being used in PIO mode. Why this is, don't ask
> me... 

A friend is trying out OpenBSD inside Xen, which shows more clearly
that HVM guests are indeed using PIO :(

pciide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel 82371SB IDE" rev 0x00: DMA, 
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QEMU HARDDISK>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 20480MB, 41943040 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives)

That explains a lot...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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