From 41aac40759c6f7dda7dbc9ec17eeaa2d22662bbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ciro Santilli Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:19:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] readme: mention secondary no reboot disk technique --- README.adoc | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 38346d1..ac013ba 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -3285,6 +3285,14 @@ Related: * https://serverfault.com/questions/769874/how-to-forward-a-port-from-guest-to-host-in-qemu-kvm +==== Secondary disk + +A simpler and possibly less overhead alternative to <<9P>> would be to generate a secondary disk image with the bencmark you want to rebuild. + +Then you can `umount` and re-mount on guest without reboot. + +We don't support this yet, but it should not be too hard to hack it up, maybe by hooking into link:rootfs_post_build_script[]. + === QEMU user mode This has nothing to do with the Linux kernel, but it is cool: