Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu workstation

[Jamie Burns]

> I am not sure that handling multiple VMs running at the same time is
> very useful (some architectural changes are needed in QEMU). But
> switching easily between VM configurations seems interesting.

I think that multiple VM's is a worthy goal as long as you can minimise CPU
usage. Having multiple VM's gives you the ability to do some very cool
things. I use VMWARE in Windows and sometimes have both Linux and FreeBSD
running in VM's so I can test software against all 3 OS's at once. I imagine
it would be very useful to developers of cluster software.

I tried the Win32 port the other day, running Linux, and it sat using 100%
of the CPU whilst doing next to nothing at a command prompt. Using VMWARE,
and waiting at a command prompt uses very little CPU time.

Is QEMU sat in a busy loop all the time?

Jamie.