On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:05:34AM -0800, Maran Wilson wrote: > For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual > machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the > guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the > uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware. > > There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI > is supported by Linux and FreeBSD: > > https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html > > This patch series would enable Qemu to use that same entry point for > booting KVM guests. How would I do that, practically? Looking at those here: > * Qemu and qboot RFC patches have been posted to show one example of how > this functionality can be used. Some preliminary numbers are available > in those cover letters showing the KVM guest boot time improvement. > Qemu: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg00957.html > qboot: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg00953.html I might still need to do some dancing to get stuff going. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
