From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Offloading to a VM Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 16:32:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bn0pp58b.fsf@gnu.org> <877fb12cf7.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87r3974txx.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgC0H-000452-Cu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:33:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgC0D-0003bc-6y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:33:04 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::236]:33024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgC0C-0003ac-0M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:33:01 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x236.google.com with SMTP id l8so17839425ywb.0 for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2016 07:32:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel The other problem I forgot to mention is that many architectures that qemu supports don't support a "kernel emulation" but only a "system emulation". In practice the system emulation isn't that much slower than kernel emulation, because emulating instructions is a lot easier than emulating syscalls... [needs quote]