BTW, I'd be interested in tips on what software/techniques people use for benchmarking qemu block devices.
So far I've been testing this by booting various guests and timing how long they take to reach various stages (eg. graphical login), but this has not proven to be reproducible. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
