Re: [Qemu-devel] Question about qemu firmware configuration (fw_cfg) device

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:23:56AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> That what I am warring about too. If we are adding device we have to be
> sure such device can actually exist on real hw too otherwise we may have
> problems later.

I don't understand why the constraints of real h/w have anything to do
with this.  Can you explain?

> Also 1 second on 100M file does not look like huge gain to me.

Every second counts.  We're trying to get libguestfs boot times down
from 8-12 seconds to 4-5 seconds.  For many cases it's an interactive
program.

Rich.

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