Re: Using bitbake in minimal chroot environment

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 15-02-10 23:04, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:43 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> On a recent intel/amd cpu VMs I can't measure much difference between VM
>> and non-vm builds.
>> My main buildmachine at work is an ubuntu 8.04LTS vm running under
>> windows XP. The only major speedup I can get building in a native
>> install would be using 64bit, since the VM is 32 bit, but it does expose
>> both CPU cores :)
> 
> What are you (and everyone else saying it's fine) running the VM with?
> I've got people reporting just unusable build times inside VMs on what
> should be reasonable hardware.

If you're on cpus with hardware virtualization support (e.g. intel
core2) you do need to enable some bits in the bios (iirc turn on PAE) to
enable the 'zero overhead' stuff intel/amd marketing are raving about.

regards,

Koen
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