From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3QC4-0006Fr-Qm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:03:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3QC1-0006FJ-2X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:03:39 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3QC0-0006FA-SF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:03:36 -0500 Received: from [69.89.18.155] (helo=outbound-mail-35.bluehost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H3QC0-0001ck-6r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:03:36 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with high load average when using -nographic with qemu in background From: Phil Rasch In-Reply-To: <200701062203.18782.paul@codesourcery.com> References: <200701061008.09809.phil@supstitches.com> <200701062203.18782.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:03:32 -0700 Message-Id: <1168146212.15464.6.camel@quark> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: phil@supstitches.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Now that I know that I didn't completely miss the point, and may even have tried a reasonable thing, I have a question and a workaround. 1) Question: How do other people do this sort of thing? That is, start a virtual machine when the hostmachine is booted automatically? Or dont they worry about the load/performance issues? 2) Workaround: I now start qemu up inside a screen session at boot. This seems to work fine, the load stays low, and performance is OK. I dont need to depend upon X11 being up. I can connect from a regular console, or from an xterm. Thanks again Phil