2015-12-15 19:27 GMT+08:00 Denis V. Lunev <d...@openvz.org>: > Hello, Paolo! > > There is a plan or idea to improve current implementation > of Clear Containers for QEMU. Patches about NVDIMM > are floating in the list, you have proposed special > boot firmware for a case. > > The idea is that we could boot with the uncompressed Linux > kernel in the guest which serves 2 purposes: > - faster boot time as per Intel opinion > - memory savings > > Uncompressed kernel image could be the same for several > guests and thus memory pages for the kernel could be the > same, which saves a bit of RAM :) > > At the moment neither BIOS support this in full: nor SeaBIOS, > nor OVMF, nor QBoot.
Just FYI, U-boot can load uncompressed kernels and it can run on qemu. > > From our point of view QBoot is an ideal candidate for this. > > Do you have any opinion for the topic? > > Den >
