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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-02-06 02:27:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-02-06 02:27:41 +0100 |
| commit | 8d1f074ce59597119309c176cba8efdf0af7cdaf (patch) | |
| tree | d3a44a42796f51d8d1d317c4a0434ab119ca4112 | |
| parent | f9b83ce77311d6583dd3368f63fe9f6b4b2217dc (diff) | |
comment about kvm optimistic optimizations
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/qemu.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn index 6989cf72..be09da43 100644 --- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn @@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ Also you can use qemu to easily try one of our [[Hurd_LiveCDs|hurd/running/live_ 2. A [[grub]] boot disk for the floppy disk image needed for booting. The [0\.97 version](ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97-i386-pc.ext2fs) works fine. I downloaded it and renamed to `floppy.img`. Alternatively, the Debian grub-disk package (up till version 0.97-28) is fine as well. 3. You will need a [Debian/Hurd installation CD](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd). K16 works fine. +# KVM acceleration + +If your machine supports hardware acceleration, you should really use the kvm variant of qemu, as it speeds things quite a lot. Note however that kvm tends to make assumptions when accelerating things in the linux kernel, you may need some -no-kvm-something option. At the moment in Debian you need to pass + + -no-kvm-irqchip + +else the boot may hang. # Installing Debian/Hurd with QEMU |