Re: [Qemu-devel] Status of q35-lite?

[Chao Peng]

On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 16:07 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Hi Chao,
> Last year there was an effort to make "built-in" hardware optional so
> that VMs can be launched with a minimal set of devices.  You made
> SATA,
> PIT, and SMBus optional.
> 
> What is the current status of this work?
> 
> Are there more devices that could benefit from an optional switch?

Hi Stefan, in terms of making device optional, we don't have more
follow-ups basically because other build-in devices do not have
significant performance impact. For other optimizations (like
optimizing/skipping BIOS), we are still working on them.

Chao
> 
> For reference, here is the discussion that kicked of the effort to
> make
> some core devices optional:
> "[RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite"
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg04842.html
> 
> Stefan