From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51018 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OgScV-0002dz-2D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:18:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgScQ-0001Tl-G6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:18:10 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:42056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgScQ-0001T9-BT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:18:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 02:17:55 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35? Message-ID: <20100804011755.GP27827@shareable.org> References: <4C5848C7.3090806@redhat.com> <4C584982.5000108@codemonkey.ws> <4C584B66.5070404@redhat.com> <4C5854F1.3000905@codemonkey.ws> <4C5858B2.9090801@redhat.com> <4C585F5B.5070502@codemonkey.ws> <4C58635B.7020407@redhat.com> <20100803191346.GA28523@amd.home.annexia.org> <4C586C6E.9030002@redhat.com> <20100803200057.GB28523@amd.home.annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100803200057.GB28523@amd.home.annexia.org> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , Gleb Natapov , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > We could demand that OSes write device drivers for more qemu devices > -- already OS vendors write thousands of device drivers for all sorts > of obscure devices, so this isn't really much of a demand for them. > In fact, they're already doing it. Result: Most OSes not working with qemu? Actually we seem to be going that way. Recent qemus don't work with older versions of Windows any more, so we have to use different versions of qemu for different guests. -- Jamie