Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-29 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/27/2010 12:57 AM, walt wrote: Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel lapic would make this much of a difference with windows 7 but it's worth trying. Using that flag wipes out the difference entirely: both come in at about 65 seconds. I also tried xp-

[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread walt
On 08/25/2010 04:28 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/25/2010 06:09 PM, walt wrote: On 08/25/2010 12:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/25/2010 02:37 PM, walt wrote: I find that qemu-kvm boots to the Win7 login prompt in 25 seconds, while qemu with kvm enabled takes about 45 seconds. Also

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:54:26AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 08/26/2010 02:59 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>>Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel > >>>lapic would make this much

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 08/26/2010 02:59 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel lapic would make this much of a difference with windows 7 but it's worth trying. Didn't try

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/26/2010 01:25 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: Isn't that only required on SVM? No, old vmx too. 'flexpriority' in /proc/cpuinfo means tpr patching is unnecessary. But to use flexpriority you need in-kernel irqchip, so qemu.git will be slow even if you have it. -- error compiling committ

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:24:11PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 26.08.2010, at 11:59, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > On 08/26/10 09:59, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I ca

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Alexander Graf
On 26.08.2010, at 11:59, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 08/26/10 09:59, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel lapic would make this much of a difference with wi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 08/26/10 09:59, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel lapic would make this much of a difference with windows 7 but it's worth trying. Didn't try win7, but for winxp it

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > >Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel > >lapic would make this much of a difference with windows 7 but it's worth > >trying. > > Didn't try win7, but for winxp it is a *huge* difference. >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-26 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Also try qemu-kvm with -no-kvm-irqchip. I can't believe an in-kernel lapic would make this much of a difference with windows 7 but it's worth trying. Didn't try win7, but for winxp it is a *huge* difference. cheers, Gerd

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-25 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 08/25/2010 06:09 PM, walt wrote: On 08/25/2010 12:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/25/2010 02:37 PM, walt wrote: Hi qemu team, I just discovered that qemu now offers kvm support, so I decided to compare it to qemu-kvm. I'm running the latest git versions of both programs on an AMD64 hos

[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm faster than qemu?

2010-08-25 Thread walt
On 08/25/2010 12:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/25/2010 02:37 PM, walt wrote: Hi qemu team, I just discovered that qemu now offers kvm support, so I decided to compare it to qemu-kvm. I'm running the latest git versions of both programs on an AMD64 host running the latest kernel from Linu