From 5bc56f4c6bc2be5a2d6aa83574ec1d1f33cc6bb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 14:41:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: performance: Mention optimizations added in libguestfs 1.33, qemu 2.7 --- docs/guestfs-performance.pod | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/guestfs-performance.pod b/docs/guestfs-performance.pod index b6c25e1d2..d0ac4e2cf 100644 --- a/docs/guestfs-performance.pod +++ b/docs/guestfs-performance.pod @@ -440,6 +440,15 @@ example). In Xen, dom0 is a virtual machine, and so hardware virtualization is not available. +=head2 Use libguestfs E 1.34 and qemu E 2.7 + +During the libguestfs 1.33 development cycle, we spent a large amount +of time concentrating on boot performance, and added some patches to +libguestfs, qemu and Linux which in some cases can reduce boot times +to well under 1 second. You may therefore get much better performance +by moving to the versions of libguestfs or qemu mentioned in the +heading. + =head1 DETAILED ANALYSIS =head2 Boot analysis