Re: [Qemu-devel] Building a Linux Distro

2006-09-02 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Michael Fisher wrote: > I want to create a distro small Linux distro that will boot as a Qemu > guest as quickly as possible. The fastest would be to savevm a fully booted system, and call QEmu with -loadvm. Hth, Dscho ___

[Qemu-devel] Building a Linux Distro

2006-09-02 Thread Michael Fisher
I want to know if the following idea is impossible, possible or just crazy. I want to create a distro small Linux distro that will boot as a Qemu guest as quickly as possible. I realize that the time it takes to boot, open apps, etc is based on host OS, CPU, memory, etc. What I am wondering is wo

Re: [Qemu-devel] AIO and savevm

2006-09-02 Thread Paul Brook
> I don't think savevm works reliably together with current AIO. At least > some kind of AIO flushing or completion waiting should happen and then this > should be done before any devices have started saving their state. Is this > correct? Correct. Implementing it this way does mean savevm can ef

Re: [Qemu-devel] OpenSPARC OBP source code available

2006-09-02 Thread Jose Renau
The Hypervisor and OBP source code is released under BSD license. The rest of the OpenSPARC project is GPL. I guess that there is no problem. On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:30 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: This may be useful for the openbios/qemu SPARC64 project. On the latest release (1.3), SUN has includ

[Qemu-devel] AIO and savevm

2006-09-02 Thread Blue Swirl
Hi, I don't think savevm works reliably together with current AIO. At least some kind of AIO flushing or completion waiting should happen and then this should be done before any devices have started saving their state. Is this correct?

Re: [Qemu-devel] OpenSPARC OBP source code available

2006-09-02 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:30:53 +0200 "Blue Swirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But before downloading that 195,508,750 bytes package, would you > happen to know what is the licence for OBP source, and would there be > problems working with both OBP and OpenBIOS (GPL)? http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.