Re: Debian on qemu-system-sparc64
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Adrian Davey <adrian@beth2.org> wrote:
> Enjoy debian on emulated sparc64. Is it fast? Erm no, but it is fun and a
> useful way to test d-i images. I am sure that booting off IDE for silo,
> kernel and initrd and then using virtio disks would make things better for
> IO, but not tried it yet.
Last time I checked it was ~6 times faster [1].
It may be also important to use ext4 and not ext3 at least on QEMU,
[2]. Not sure if it's also the case on a physical hw.
Artyom
1. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2014/06/iommu-support-in-upstream-qemu-system.html
2. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2013/03/virtio-performance-and-filesystems.html
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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko
SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
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