Re: [Libguestfs] guestfish runs w/ a nested guest
On 05/16/2013 09:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Rich.
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/kashyap
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 06:14:11PM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> To summarize:
>
> L0 (bare-metal):
> - guestfish run: ~ 3 seconds
>
> L1 (guest):
> - w/o nesting, guestfish run: ~ 52 seconds
> - w/ nesting, guestfish run: ~ 8 seconds (Almost 6 1/2 times speed improvement)
Or to put it another way, nested hardware virtualization is over twice
as slow as ordinary hardware virtualization :-)
:)
But doesn't it look optimistic: given all the I/O, MMU, related on-going research, it
might only get better ?
However it's still a lot better than TCG, so this is good.
Yes, I have on my TODO to write more coherent details after some further tests. Let me
see
if I could muster enough discipline to do it. Now that I mentioned here, it might put
little more pressure on me.
As an aside, when you get a moment, can you please enlighten a bit more on how often we
(in Fedora, elsewhere) use TCG ?
Meantime, I'm reading -
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob_plain;f=tcg/README;hb=HEAD
Thanks.