Re: faster boot with -no-kvm?

Dor Laor
2007-04-12T13:48:00Z

>When I start my Windows VM with -no-kvm, it seems to boot much more
>quickly than without. Also there's a long period, right after the VM
>changes its screen resolution from the 640x480 used for Windows' boot
>screen to 1280x1024, where the VM's screen goes all white. Is this
>all normal?

I think the longer boot time with kvm might be caused by the slow white
Screen drawing.
Avi solved it elegantly by aliasing the mmio memory to regular ram.
There was no official kvm release so you'll need to get update from the
git.
Maybe it's a good reason for a new fresh release.

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