[Lguest] Some Queries

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 00:27:00 EST 2010


just FYI, the qemu memory footprint for kvm guests is huge (several
tens of Mbytes). Is there some perceived advantage to having qemu
instead of the simple lguest program as it stands now?

Also, the lguest program very cleverly makes the guest part of its
memory space -- how would you propose to get this same effect if you
used qemu?

One reason we use lguest instead of kvm at sandia for our project is
we can easily boot 1200 guests on an $877 desktop with 12 GB, which
would not be possible were we using qemu (we tried).

What is the compelling reason to want qemu?

ron


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