[Qemu-devel] Slow booting with large Initrd

[Dyweni - Qemu-Devel]

Hi List,

This morning I ran across a thread on this list from Oct'11 about slow
booting with large initrd images. Reading through that thread, I didn't
really see any sort of definitive resolution to the problem.

Also, this morning, I upgraded Qemu-KVM to latest git master
(9d636ae7488edfa9c7f03ceee62c838d505aac3e). I do not see any 
improvement /
resolution of the issue.



** I'd like to find out where the QEMU-KVM list / community is at on
resolving this problem. **



My setup is this:

Host Kernel: 3.1.6

Guest Kernel: 3.2.0-rc7
Guest Kernel Size: 3.7MB (bzImage)
Guest Initrd Size: 84MB (init ram fs)

QEMU Start comamnd line:

qemu-system-x86_64
 -curses
 -m 512
 -drive file=/dev/mapper/flashcow2,cache=writeback
 -drive file=/dev/mapper/datacow2,cache=writeback
 -net nic,macaddr=00:AA:00:FF:61:AA,vlan=0 -net
tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap40,script=no
 -net nic,macaddr=00:AA:00:1E:F8:BB,vlan=1 -net
tap,vlan=1,ifname=tap47,script=no

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Thanks,
Dyweni