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From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
	QEMU <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] guest kernel in the host RAM
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:27:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <566FF912.3000809@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <566EE582.2070408@virtuozzo.com>

Hello, Paolo!

There is a plan or idea to improve current implementation
of Clear Containers for QEMU. Patches about NVDIMM
are floating in the list, you have proposed special
boot firmware for a case.

The idea is that we could boot with the uncompressed Linux
kernel in the guest which serves 2 purposes:
- faster boot time as per Intel opinion
- memory savings

Uncompressed kernel image could be the same for several
guests and thus memory pages for the kernel could be the
same, which saves a bit of RAM :)

At the moment neither BIOS support this in full: nor SeaBIOS,
nor OVMF, nor QBoot.

 From our point of view QBoot is an ideal candidate for this.

Do you have any opinion for the topic?

Den

       reply	other threads:[~2015-12-15 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <566EE582.2070408@virtuozzo.com>
2015-12-15 11:27 ` Denis V. Lunev [this message]
2015-12-15 11:59   ` [Qemu-devel] guest kernel in the host RAM Paolo Bonzini
2015-12-18 16:28     ` Denis V. Lunev
2015-12-18 18:03       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-12-16  3:18   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-12-16  9:56   ` Miao Yan

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