[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2
From: |
Gleb Natapov |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35? |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:07:09 +0300 |
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:04:09AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 08/04/2010 03:17 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >For playing games, there are three options:
> >- existing fwcfg
> >- fwcfg+dma
> >- put roms in 4GB-2MB (or whatever we decide the flash size is)
> >and have the BIOS copy them
> >
> >Existing fwcfg is the least amount of work and probably
> >satisfactory for isapc. fwcfg+dma is IMO going off a tangent.
> >High memory flash is the most hardware-like solution, pretty easy
> >from a qemu point of view but requires more work.
>
> The only trouble I see is that high memory isn't always available.
> If it's a 32-bit PC and you've exhausted RAM space, then you're only
> left with the PCI hole and it's not clear to me if you can really
> pull out 100mb of space there as an option ROM without breaking
> something.
>
We can map it on demand. Guest tells qemu to map rom "A" to address X by
writing into some io port. Guest copies rom. Guest tells qemu to unmap
it. Better then DMA interface IMHO.
--
Gleb.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/08/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/08/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Avi Kivity, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gleb Natapov, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?,
Gleb Natapov <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Richard W.M. Jones, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gleb Natapov, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gleb Natapov, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gleb Natapov, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Anthony Liguori, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Gleb Natapov, 2010/08/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/08/04