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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEmu 0.6.0 and FreeDOS on XP Host get 100% CPU usage
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Natalia Portillo wrote:
> In qemu isn't implemented idle.
> 
> So when the emulated cpu is idle, the emulation is not.
> That's the reason. 

I don't think that is true, because when I run Windows XP as a guest in 
qemu, the qemu process doesn't use 100% CPU unless something is actually 
running in Windows.

I suspect that Andreas gets 100% CPU usage with a FreeDOS guest because 
FreeDOS doesn't do CPU idle... that's not how DOS works.  It's not much 
of an operating system at all, really.

Luke.