On 30 September 2015 at 11:21, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > However: if Gabriel has no access to actual aarch64 hardware (ie. cannot > run KVM guests), then I don't think he should bother. Booting just the > UEFI firmware on qemu-system-aarch64 with TCG acceleration is fine, but > for checking "/proc/iomem", he'd really need to boot into guest Linux, > and *that* takes absolutely forever with TCG.
If it actually takes forever that's a bug of some sort I think. TCG isn't all that snappy but it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to boot and it should be at least usably responsive on the command line once you get there. (Best not to try to boot into a GUI, though.) -- PMM
