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Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]



Nigel Horne, le Mon 01 Nov 2010 18:30:43 -0400, a écrit :
> On 11/01/2010 12:41 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >Nigel Horne, le Sun 31 Oct 2010 16:30:40 -0400, a écrit :
> >   
> >>Do you find a lot of disc activity?  I did, but the work around is to
> >>start QEMU with these options (assuming you're using the latest QEMU
> >>from git):
> >>
> >>qemu -drive
> >>file=debian-hurd-03102010-qemu.img,index=0,media=disk,cache=unsafe -boot
> >>c -enable-kvm -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user
> >>
> >>After that I found hurd works very fast.
> >>     
> >What accelerates your hurd is most probably the use of -enable-kvm, as
> >that enables native virtualisation support of your CPU. cache=unsafe can
> >probably help too.
> >   
> You would think that, but I have found that just enabling KVM makes Hurd 
> disc bound under QEMU, hence the need for the other options as well.

That's what I meant by "can probably help too".

Samuel


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