On 2/20/2016 11:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
The first time I built LFS in qemu I thought I did something wrong.
From 'power on' to login prompt was about 2 seconds.
I have found that building LFS in qemu takes about 150% of the time on
HW. I don't know if I set things up properly or not. What I use is
usually some variation of:
qemu -enable-kvm -boot c \
-drive file=/mnt/qemu/deb71.img \
-drive file=/mnt/qemu/lfs.img \
-m 2G \
-cpu host \
-smp 2 \
-vga std \
-net nic -net bridge \
-machine type=pc,accel=kvm
But I haven't done this recently.
I don't use it directly, I use libvirtd (with vmm). I know converting a
vmm generated xml file to qemu-argv makes a really ugly command line,
about 50 lines (assuming one argument per line, it's 27 lines in 80x24
term). I'll have to do a comparison between native and kvm at some
point. There should be some performance penalty, but 50% does seem like
an awful lot. I do know that switching only the virtio driver for disk
fixed some minor stutter issues I had with linux guests a couple of
years back (both using raw device), short hangs at cli when typing,
momentary paused make output, etc. CLI for qemu would probably be
something like -device=virtio to each hardware argument.
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