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From: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, seabios@seabios.org,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Need a way disable gPXE boot
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:03:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310020341.GA29054@morn.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100309141120.GA21444@amd.home.annexia.org>

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:11:20PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I noticed also with libguestfs that boot times have spiralled out of
> control again, and it seems to be down to the SeaBIOS change.  SeaBIOS
> accounts for _9_ seconds of the boot sequence, up from very small
> (fraction of a second) for the old Bochs BIOS[1].

I'm surprised - a significant amount of effort has gone into making
SeaBIOS boot quickly.  On my machine, the OS starts loading in well
under a second.

I'm not familiar with libguestfs - is that doing something to alter
the hardware emulation?

-Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-18 18:11 [Qemu-devel] Need a way disable gPXE boot Theodore Ts'o
2009-11-18 19:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-18 22:37   ` tytso
2009-11-18 20:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sebastian Herbszt
2010-03-09 14:11   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-03-10  2:03     ` Kevin O'Connor [this message]
2010-03-10  9:51       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-03-10  3:35     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-10 10:00       ` Richard W.M. Jones

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