On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 02:07:04PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 16:07 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Hi Chao,
> > Last year there was an effort to make "built-in" hardware optional so
> > that VMs can be launched with a minimal set of devices.  You made
> > SATA,
> > PIT, and SMBus optional.
> > 
> > What is the current status of this work?
> > 
> > Are there more devices that could benefit from an optional switch?
> 
> Hi Stefan, in terms of making device optional, we don't have more
> follow-ups basically because other build-in devices do not have
> significant performance impact. For other optimizations (like
> optimizing/skipping BIOS), we are still working on them.

Excellent to hear!  If you want early feedback on BIOS optimizations
then this mailing list or SeaBios/ed2k might be good places to discuss.

KVM Forum proposals can be submitted until Thursday, June 15th.  That
would be a good forum to present your work:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/cfp

Stefan