[Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread graff zeltner
Hi, I was pleasantly surprised to find a plethora of options in the latest qemu version 2.0.95. I have spent a couple of hours reading the documentation, and unfortunately was not able to run the program to see if everything works. I have a file generated by version 1.7.50 which I was running

[Qemu-discuss] Is SSE2 implemented with hardware support ?

2014-07-30 Thread 邓尧
Hello, I need to optimize a Linux program running under qemu-system-i386. qemu is compiled with KVM support. File /proc/cpuinfo in the guest shows that SSE2 is supported. If SSE2 is backed with host hardware, using SSE2 may improve my program's performance significantly. The host is x86_64 Linux.

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Is SSE2 implemented with hardware support ?

2014-07-30 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 7/30/2014 9:14 AM, 邓尧 wrote: Hello, I need to optimize a Linux program running under qemu-system-i386. qemu is compiled with KVM support. File /proc/cpuinfo in the guest shows that SSE2 is supported. If SSE2 is backed with host hardware, using SSE2 may improve my program's performance

[Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread chester tinemas
Hi I am trying to increase the speed at which a guest runs in Qemu, so that I can run a regression test on software within the guest OS in a shorter amount of time. Hopefully this would allow a test that would take 6 hours normally take less when run inside qemu. Is this possible using qemu or

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: graff zeltner gz...@mail.com Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:56:59 +0200 I was pleasantly surprised to find a plethora of options in the latest qemu version 2.0.95. I have spent a couple of hours reading the documentation, and unfortunately was not able to run the program to see if

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: chester tinemas chester.tine...@gmail.com I am trying to increase the speed at which a guest runs in Qemu, so that I can run a regression test on software within the guest OS in a shorter amount of time. Hopefully this would allow a test that would take 6 hours normally take less when

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread graff zeltner
Hi, Ive built version 2.0.95 with the following sequence of steps: git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git ./configure halted on missing libfdt, so used git submodule update --init dtc to fix missing dependency ./configure --prefix=/home/graf/test/qemu --target-list=i386-linux-user

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread Tony Su
If your main objective is performance, I don't think that there is any question you should be considering LXC to eliminate overhead. The reason why LXC is the ultimate in performance is because the Guests run in a bare metal environment, resources are not virtualized but simply isolated from

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread graff zeltner
Hi, Running the command which qemu-i386 and which qemu-system-x86_64 produces two different versions on my system. I am running Linux kernel 3.14. qemu-i386 resides in /usr/bin and is version 1.70 Debian, and qemu-system-x86_64 in /usr/local/bin is version 1.7.50 which I built from sources about

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread 邓尧
IMO, you should refactor your test. If regression test needs as long as 6 hours to complete, the test itself is a problem. A simple and intuitive approach is to split the test cases into multiple groups, and run the groups in parallel on different servers/VMs On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:09 AM,