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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu cpu speed
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:18:25 +0100
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Cc: peter wasp <hardwasp@gmail.com>

On Sunday 12 October 2008, peter wasp wrote:
> Is it possible to set the cpu speed in qemu? I'm testing cluster systems on
> many qemu instances and it would be great to have this option. Thank You
> for your help

Qemu is not cycle accurate. Any measure of cpu speed is meaningless.
If you want to control how much host CPU each qemu instance gets, that a 
problem that your host OS should be solving.

Paul