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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:19:46 +0100
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Marc_Mar=C3=AD?= <markmb@redhat.com>, Kevin OConnor <kevin@koconnor.net>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On 30 September 2015 at 13:22, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
> (3) After logging in super fast, the time it takes to get a shell
> prompt: 50 seconds

That's bad. This should be more like 5 seconds at worst, it is for me.
This does depend a lot on how your guest is configured,
of course -- if you have a full fat distro with all the
desktop bells and whistles it's probably going to be slower.

> (4) The time it takes for background services to quiesce (= for QEMU to
> stop spinning) while waiting idly at the shell prompt (because it makes
> no sense to issue commands earlier): 1 minute 19 seconds

Not sure what these "background services" are. Sounds like your
guest image is a bit overconfigured...

thanks
-- PMM