On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 07:48:29PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On aarch64 kernel loading is really slow because it can only transfer > (IIRC) 8 bytes at a time, and there are no string instructions we can > use to speed it up.
I should note here I'm talking about AAVMF (ie. guest UEFI) which has to load the kernel via fw_cfg. Using the -kernel option qemu-system-aarch64 is really fast because it prepopulates the guest RAM. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
