On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 16:07 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Hi Chao, > Last year there was an effort to make "built-in" hardware optional so > that VMs can be launched with a minimal set of devices. You made > SATA, > PIT, and SMBus optional. > > What is the current status of this work? > > Are there more devices that could benefit from an optional switch?
Hi Stefan, in terms of making device optional, we don't have more follow-ups basically because other build-in devices do not have significant performance impact. For other optimizations (like optimizing/skipping BIOS), we are still working on them. Chao > > For reference, here is the discussion that kicked of the effort to > make > some core devices optional: > "[RFC 0/9] Introduce light weight PC platform pc-lite" > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg04842.html > > Stefan
