[kata-dev] QEMU 4 and QEMU-lite

Montes, Julio julio.montes at intel.com
Tue May 28 17:54:52 UTC 2019


On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 18:19 +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Montes, Julio (julio.montes at intel.com) wrote:
> > Hi kata-folks
> > 
> > One of the topics in today's agent was QEMU 4 and the work that we
> > are doing to support it in Kata Containers.
> > I ran the boot time and memory footprint metrics in my workstation
> > to compare QEMU 4 vs QEMU-lite (2.11).
> > Here the results.
> > 
> > Feel free to comment and raise your concerns about QEMU 4.
> 
> So that looks pretty nice for QEMU 4; at least as fast and in
> the noise on the memory usage?

yeah - IMO QEMU 4 has a good performance and new features, it's a good
hypervisor for Kata Containers.

> Do you have any notes on how you configured and built the qemu 4 ?
> 

Yes, we use this script [1] to build all QEMUs

[1] - 
https://github.com/kata-containers/packaging/blob/master/scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh

> Dave
> 
> > 
> > 
> > [cid:0167e7dca7f28c0cac1fcbc4b25a97cfeec1de1a.camel at intel.com]
> > 
> > 
> > [cid:78029be0c3d799ae75a605b679187f4b84a38ae2.camel at intel.com]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > _______________________________________________
> > kata-dev mailing list
> > kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io
> > http://lists.katacontainers.io/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kata-dev
> 
> --
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert at redhat.com / Manchester, UK


More information about the kata-dev mailing list