From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RxeVP-0007qx-8R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:02:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RxeVG-0004pv-A3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:02:43 -0500 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:51683) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RxeVG-0004pL-3s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:02:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4F3BACE0.1030004@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:02:24 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <0b40a0b37dcef2febab732f93a4c82fb@pl1.haspere.com> In-Reply-To: <0b40a0b37dcef2febab732f93a4c82fb@pl1.haspere.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Slow booting with large Initrd List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: 8SScqsnYX8tr@dyweni.com Cc: Qemu Devel On 15.02.2012 16:35, Dyweni - Qemu-Devel wrote: > Hi List, > > This morning I ran across a thread on this list from Oct'11 about slow > booting with large initrd images. Reading through that thread, I didn't > really see any sort of definitive resolution to the problem. There's been several mentions of alternative ways - like, booting from an .iso cdrom image instead of using -kernel/-initrd - that one works fast. Creating an .iso out of kernel+initrd is trivial. /mjt