According to this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines Qemu can run at almost native speed if it runs in full virtualization mode. This seems to be with option -kernel-kqemu. If it is not using this option, it's only 10 to 20% of native speed.
>From http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-doc.html#SEC7 --snip-- This mode is activated with the `-kernel-kqemu' QEMU option. It is currently only supported for 32 bit guest OSes (the x86_64 code is not debugged yet). When KQEMU runs in full virtualization mode, both guest kernel and user code are executed directly on the host CPU. In normal mode, only the user code is executed directly and the kernel code is still dynamically translated by QEMU. --snip-- Is this -kernel-kqemu" option possible if running the qemu -current port (0.82) on OpenBSD 4.0? Or is it a lot of porting work before this can be used? Thanks in advance Per-Olov -- GPG keyID: 4DB283CE GPG fingerprint: 45E8 3D0E DE05 B714 D549 45BC CFB4 BBE9 4DB2 83CE
