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

[Avi Kivity]

 On 08/04/2010 09:13 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > It's not trivial mind you, and won't happen straightaway.  Part of it
> > is that it requires reworking the appliance builder (a matter of just
> > coding really).  The less trivial part is that we have to 'hide' the
> > CD device throughout the publically available interfaces.  Then of
> > course, a lot of testing.
> Why not go with 9p? That would save off even more time, as you don't have to 
> generate an iso. You could just copy all the relevant executables into tmpfs 
> and boot from there using your kernel and a very small (pre-built) initrd.

Yes - and you don't need to copy, just hardlink if your /tmp and /usr 
are on the same filesystem.

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