From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35? Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:19:18 +0300 Message-ID: <4C59AF26.2090102@redhat.com> References: <4C590046.2020705@redhat.com> <4C591D48.9080301@redhat.com> <4C592218.3000901@redhat.com> <4C596549.1070109@codemonkey.ws> <20100804130709.GL10499@redhat.com> <4C5967D8.7080707@codemonkey.ws> <20100804133401.GP10499@redhat.com> <4C5970AC.6060105@codemonkey.ws> <4C5995B4.90505@redhat.com> <4C5996F4.6010205@redhat.com> <20100804174601.GH28523@amd.home.annexia.org> <4C59AE8F.80205@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexander Graf , "Richard W.M.Jones" , Gleb Natapov , Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:61081 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757274Ab0HDST3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:19:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C59AE8F.80205@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/04/2010 09:16 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Why not go with 9p? That would save off even more time, as you don't >> have to generate an iso. You could just copy all the relevant >> executables into tmpfs and boot from there using your kernel and a >> very small (pre-built) initrd. > > You can't boot from 9p. > As Alex said, you boot from a non-100MB initrd (or cdrom) and mount the 9pfs. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.