Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU with KNOPPIX

[Fabrice Bellard]

John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 22:19, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote:
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> > If you have any suggestions, please post.
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> Need to think of some ways to speed it up. It took several minutes to
> load.
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> Where are the possible optimizations?
>
> Could we do a "save state" type operation and jump straight to loaded
> Knoppix desktop?

Doing a save state and a restore state is  a very good idea. The KNOPPIX 
"boot" would be instantaneous. The current load/save code is almost 
ready to do that. There are still problems with timers, PCI and network, 
but it should be easy to solve.

Fabrice.