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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:59:21 +0300
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel
> >lapic would make this much of a difference with windows 7 but it's worth
> >trying.
> 
> Didn't try win7, but for winxp it is a *huge* difference.
> 
On which HW? My guess is this is because of tpr patching.

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