[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Jan 26

[Alexander Graf]

On 26.01.2010, at 15:47, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 01/26/2010 04:42 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> 
>>> That's /proc/cpuinfo, we should just extend it, maybe that's what Alex 
>>> meant, but I'd like to see something more capable.
>>>     
>> I think we're all looking at different use-cases.
>> 
>> First and frontmost the one type of user I'm concerned with in this case is 
>> a mortal end-user who doesn't know that much about virtualization details 
>> and doesn't care what NPT is. He just wants to have a VM running and wants 
>> to know how well it'll work.
>>   
> 
> It really depends on what he does with it.  3D gaming? might have a different 
> experience from the always exciting kernel builds.

Well, we can give an estimation (based on previous measurements) for certain 
subsystems. Like I proposed in the original mail, we can actually give users 
information about virtual CPU speed.

With SPICE hopefully merged one day we also could give some estimates on 3D 
performance.


Alex