[Qemu-discuss] Is SSE2 implemented with hardware support ?

2014-07-30 Thread 邓尧
Hello, I need to optimize a Linux program running under qemu-system-i386. qemu is compiled with KVM support. File /proc/cpuinfo in the guest shows that SSE2 is supported. If SSE2 is backed with host hardware, using SSE2 may improve my program's performance significantly. The host is x86_64 Linux.

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Is SSE2 implemented with hardware support ?

2014-07-30 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 7/30/2014 9:14 AM, 邓尧 wrote: Hello, I need to optimize a Linux program running under qemu-system-i386. qemu is compiled with KVM support. File /proc/cpuinfo in the guest shows that SSE2 is supported. If SSE2 is backed with host hardware, using SSE2 may improve my program's performance signifi

[Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread chester tinemas
Hi I am trying to increase the speed at which a guest runs in Qemu, so that I can run a regression test on software within the guest OS in a shorter amount of time. Hopefully this would allow a test that would take 6 hours normally take less when run inside qemu. Is this possible using qemu or oth

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: "graff zeltner" > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:56:59 +0200 > > I was pleasantly surprised to find a plethora of options in the > latest qemu version 2.0.95. I have spent a couple of hours reading > the documentation, and unfortunately was not able to run the program > to see if everything wo

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: chester tinemas > > I am trying to increase the speed at which a guest runs in Qemu, so that I > can run a regression test on software within the guest OS in a shorter > amount of time. Hopefully this would allow a test that would take 6 hours > normally take less when run inside qemu. Is

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread graff zeltner
Hi, I've built version 2.0.95 with the following sequence of steps: 'git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git' './configure' halted on missing libfdt, so used 'git submodule update --init dtc' to fix missing dependency './configure --prefix=/home/graf/test/qemu --target-list="i386-linux-user

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread Mike Lovell
On 07/30/2014 12:21 PM, graff zeltner wrote: Hi, I've built version 2.0.95 with the following sequence of steps: 'git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git' './configure' halted on missing libfdt, so used 'git submodule update --init dtc' to fix missing dependency './configure --prefix=/home

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread Tony Su
If your main objective is performance, I don't think that there is any question you should be considering LXC to eliminate overhead. The reason why LXC is the ultimate in performance is because the Guests run in a bare metal environment, resources are not virtualized but simply isolated from other

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread graff zeltner
Hi, Running the command 'which qemu-i386' and 'which qemu-system-x86_64' produces two different versions on my system. I am running Linux kernel 3.14. qemu-i386 resides in /usr/bin and is version 1.70 Debian, and qemu-system-x86_64 in /usr/local/bin is version 1.7.50 which I built from sources abo

Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick start help after build

2014-07-30 Thread Mike Lovell
On 07/30/2014 04:54 PM, graff zeltner wrote: Running the command 'which qemu-i386' and 'which qemu-system-x86_64' produces two different versions on my system. I am running Linux kernel 3.14. qemu-i386 resides in /usr/bin and is version 1.70 Debian, and qemu-system-x86_64 in /usr/local/bin is v

[Qemu-discuss] new version works great

2014-07-30 Thread graff zeltner
Hi,   I've been using Linux 3.0.21-tinycore with qemu 1.7.0 and 1.7.50 and it was very slow, like it was stuck in the mud. I have now successfully built the latest 2.0.95 version and running with -kvm-enable option. I cannot tell the difference between the live system and the emulated one.    g

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Increasing speed of guest OS

2014-07-30 Thread 邓尧
IMO, you should refactor your test. If regression test needs as long as 6 hours to complete, the test itself is a problem. A simple and intuitive approach is to split the test cases into multiple groups, and run the groups in parallel on different servers/VMs On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Ton