On 14.09.2012 14:00, Jan Kiszka wrote: [] > The major difference in qemu-system-i386 vs. qemu-system-x86_64 is on > the TCG side: We measured noticeable performance benefits when running > 32/16 bit OSes against qemu-system-i386 vs. using qemu-system-x86_64. I > don't have numbers at hand, but colleagues decided to use the 32-bit > version for that reason (when no KVM is available).
Interesting. Maybe someone should look at the difference on TCG side and merge interesting bits from i386 to x86_64... :) The thing is: x86_64 becomes the only x86 platform these days, or at least the MAIN platform. Thank you for the clarification -- very useful information indeed! /mjt
