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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:13:46 +0100
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:43:39PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> libguestfs does not depend on an x86 architectural feature.
> qemu-system-x86_64 emulates a PC, and PCs don't have -kernel.  We
> should discourage people from depending on this interface for
> production use.

I really don't get this whole thing where we must slavishly
emulate an exact PC ...

Rich.

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