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

[David S. Ahern]

On 08/04/10 11:34, Avi Kivity wrote:

>> And it's awesome for fast prototyping. Of course, once that fast
>> becomes dog slow, it's not useful anymore.
> 
> For the Nth time, it's only slow with 100MB initrds.

100MB is really not that large for an initrd.

Consider the deployment of stateless nodes - something that
virtualization allows the rapid deployment of. 1 kernel, 1 initrd with
the various binaries to be run. Create nodes as needed by launching a
shell command - be it for more capacity, isolation, etc. Why require an
iso or disk wrapper for a binary blob that is all to be run out of
memory? The -append argument allows boot parameters to be specified at
launch. That is a very powerful and simple design option.

David