Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:48:17PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 08/03/2010 07:44 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> >It's not a good path to follow.  Tomorrow we'll need to load 300MB
> >initrds and we'll have to rework this yet again.  Meanwhile the
> >kernel and virtio support demand loading of any image size you'd
> >want to use.
> >
> 
> Even better would be to use virtio-9p.  You don't even need an image
> in this case.

We don't want to expose the whole host filesystem, just selected
files, and we want to use our own configuration files (basically
that's what is in the skeleton part that we do ship).

Of course, if we can use virtio-9p, then excellent.  Is there good
documentation about virtio-9p?  What I can find is fragmentary or
based on reading qemu -help ...

Rich.

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