[kata-dev] QEMU 4 and QEMU-lite

Dr. David Alan Gilbert dgilbert at redhat.com
Tue May 28 18:40:02 UTC 2019


* Montes, Julio (julio.montes at intel.com) wrote:
> 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.

Great!  Please keep running these tests to make sure we don't regress in
future versions (especially on our soft-freezes etc so we can spot
them before the next release.

> > 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

Thanks!

Dave

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