On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:33:59AM -0700, Chegu Vinod wrote:
> I rebuilt the 3.4.1 kernel in the guest from scratch and retried my
> experiments and measured
> the boot times...
>
> a) Host : RHEL6.3 RC1 + qemu-kvm (that came with it) & Guest :
> RHEL6.3 RC1: ~1 min
>
> b) Host :3.4.1 + qemu-kvm.git & Guest : RHEL6.3RC1 - ~1 min
>
> c) Host :3.4.1 + qemu-kvm.git & Guest : 3.4.1 - ~10 mins
>
> d) Host :3.4.1 + qemu.git & Guest : RHEL6.3 RC1 - ~1 min
>
> e) Host :3.4.1 + qemu.git & Guest : 3.4.1 - ~14 mins
>
>
> In both the case (c) & (e) had quite a few warning/error messages
> from udevd.
>
> FYI..
> Vinod
> PS: Haven't had the time to do any further analysis...as the
> machine is being used for
> other experiments...
>
>
Next time you get the machine can you try running (b) but adding
-hypervisor to your -cpu config.
--
Gleb.
