[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 0/7] tests/qemu: Add program for tracing and analyzing boot times.
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Sun Mar 20 12:30:57 UTC 2016
v1 was here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-March/thread.html#00157
Not running the 'hwclock' command reduces boot times considerably.
However I'm not sure if it is safe. See the question I posted on
qemu-devel:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/402194
At the moment, about 50% of the time is consumed by SeaBIOS. Of this,
about ⅓rd is SGABIOS (it contains a useless ¼s sleep waiting for a
keypress ... ffs!), and the other ⅔rds is something else in SeaBIOS.
Simply removing SGABIOS improves boot times to below 2s, but at a cost
that we cannot see any messages from SeaBIOS so further measurement
and therefore improvement becomes impossible. I'm going to try to fix
SeaBIOS/SGABIOS first. See also:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/402196
Rich.
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