On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:25:36PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/08/2012 08:45 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > BTW do we really need fast slot creation/destruction? > > > > At the moment yes. Boot a RHEL/Fedora installation disk (or any other > > guest which uses SYSLINUX splash screen) and you will see. > > Another workload that suffers is Windows XP clearing the screen during boot. > > > That > > particular case is a limitation of cirrus in QEMU, ideally it should be > > optimized there. > > Why do you say that? There is no fundamental need to create/destroy the 0xa0000 VGA memory slot repeatedly. But you are right that the aim should be decent performance nevertheless. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
