On 08/04/10 11:34, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> And it's awesome for fast prototyping. Of course, once that fast >> becomes dog slow, it's not useful anymore. > > For the Nth time, it's only slow with 100MB initrds. 100MB is really not that large for an initrd. Consider the deployment of stateless nodes - something that virtualization allows the rapid deployment of. 1 kernel, 1 initrd with the various binaries to be run. Create nodes as needed by launching a shell command - be it for more capacity, isolation, etc. Why require an iso or disk wrapper for a binary blob that is all to be run out of memory? The -append argument allows boot parameters to be specified at launch. That is a very powerful and simple design option. David
