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

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:14:01AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >Unmapping device and mapping it at the same place is easy. Enumerating
> >pci devices from multiboot.bin looks like unneeded churn though.
> >
> >>Maybe we're just being too fancy here.
> >>
> >>We could rewrite -kernel/-append/-initrd to just generate a floppy
> >>image in RAM, and just boot from floppy.
> >>
> >May be. Can floppy be 100M?
> 
> No, I forgot just how small they are.  R/O usb mass storage device?
> CDROM?  I'm beginning thing that loading such a large initrd through
> fwcfg is simply a dead end.
> 
Well, libguestfs can use CDROM by itself to begin with.

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                        Gleb.