Re: [Qemu-devel] Large sized guest taking for ever to boot...

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:33:59AM -0700, Chegu Vinod wrote:
> I rebuilt the 3.4.1 kernel in the guest from scratch and retried my
> experiments and measured
> the boot times...
> 
> a) Host :  RHEL6.3 RC1 + qemu-kvm (that came with it) &  Guest :
> RHEL6.3 RC1:  ~1 min
> 
> b) Host :3.4.1 + qemu-kvm.git & Guest : RHEL6.3RC1      -   ~1 min
> 
> c) Host :3.4.1 + qemu-kvm.git & Guest : 3.4.1      -   ~10 mins
> 
> d) Host :3.4.1 + qemu.git & Guest : RHEL6.3 RC1  -    ~1 min
> 
> e) Host :3.4.1 + qemu.git & Guest : 3.4.1                   -    ~14 mins
> 
> 
> In both the case (c) & (e) had quite a few warning/error messages
> from udevd.
> 
> FYI..
> Vinod
> PS:  Haven't had the time to do any further analysis...as the
> machine is being used for
> other experiments...
> 
> 
Next time you get the machine can you try running (b) but adding
-hypervisor to your -cpu config.

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                        Gleb.