Hi Robert, Robert Vineyard wrote: > Not sure if you've tried this, but I noticed massive performance > gains (easily booting 2-3 times as fast) by converting from RAW disk > images to direct-mapped raw partitions and making sure that IOMMU > support was enabled in the BIOS and in the kernel at boot time. Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately do we have IOMMU support enabled, and in production (rather than this test case), we run from LVM LVs, which are effectively direct raw partitions and still have this slow boot problem. Thanks anyway, Richard. -- 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
