On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Adrian Davey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Enjoy debian on emulated sparc64. Is it fast? Erm no, but it is fun and a > useful way to test d-i images. I am sure that booting off IDE for silo, > kernel and initrd and then using virtio disks would make things better for > IO, but not tried it yet. Last time I checked it was ~6 times faster [1]. It may be also important to use ext4 and not ext3 at least on QEMU, [2]. Not sure if it's also the case on a physical hw. Artyom 1. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2014/06/iommu-support-in-upstream-qemu-system.html 2. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2013/03/virtio-performance-and-filesystems.html -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
