Re: [Qemu-devel] linux guests and ksm performance

2012-02-23 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@gmail.com wrote: The other approach is a memory page discard mechanism - which obviously requires more code changes than zeroing freed pages. The advantage is that we don't take the brute-force and CPU intensive approach of zeroing

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-10 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-) Remember that Windows usage

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: That's all good and well. The question now is which direction would the community prefer to go. Would everyone be just happy with virtio-9p passthrough? Would it support multiple OSs (Windows comes to mind here)? Or

[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] e1000 emulation code

2008-01-09 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Dor Laor wrote: Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbps. very nice! in a related note, the VMWare tools package, which is supposed to 'enhance performance' by installing 'specially tuned' drivers into a guest, doesn't include