On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:33:56AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
Hi, qboot (https://github.com/bonzini/qboot) is a stripped down firmware providing only what is needed to boot a Linux kernel on x86. I wonder if there is room to achieve similar results with SeaBIOS for the lightweight virtual machine use case.
The goal is to enter the kernel within 20 milliseconds. (That's the number I measured with qboot.)
Kevin: Have you looked at SeaBIOS startup time and do you think this use case is within the scope of what SeaBIOS is intended for?
Marc is beginning to profile boot times and any pointers would be helpful.
Hi Stefan,
I took a look a month or so ago:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/136207
Last test I ran I had SeaBIOS down to 16ms (not including the time to deploy or jump to the linux kernel). More reductions are also possible - the above was just with Kconfig settings.
Let me know if you want more info on how I did that.
That sounds interesting. Do you have a .config or git branch?
Stefan