linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.2

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Message-ID: <4EB3FB16.2000003@siemens.com>
Date:	Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:47:50 +0100
From:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.2

On 2011-11-04 09:38, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Finally, I discovered one interesting (and esoteric) use case at LinuxCon
> Europe for the KVM tool:
> 
>   https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/sweeney
> 
> It turns out they use KVM tool in some parts of their simulation clusters
> because its startup memory footprint is much smaller than Qemu's.

That's mostly due to QEMU's internal guest memory represenation which
will be reworked in the near future (the large amount of device models
for all the QEMU target architectures had to be converted first).

Jan

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