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gayanper opened this issue Dec 12, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #494
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Improve x86_64 emulation on arm64 platform #471

gayanper opened this issue Dec 12, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #494
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The current x86_64 emulation try to use the apple-hypervisor as the accelerator which only use 1 cpu on the host machine regardless how much cpu core are assigned.

But changing the accelerator parameter from apple hypervisor to tcg with few more extra parameters which UTM use when emulating improved the emulation performance up to the point docker qemu userspace emulation.
gayanper added a commit to gayanper/lima that referenced this issue Dec 12, 2021
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lima-vm#471 imporve qemu emulation of x86_64 on arm64.
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This change will use qemu64 cpu for better emulation and add some extra parameters like tcg accel and force multi threading where multiple host threads will be used for vcpus according to qemu documentation. Added few more extra parameters which are used by UTM for better emulation of x86_64
@jandubois jandubois added component/qemu QEMU enhancement New feature or request labels Dec 12, 2021
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changing the accelerator parameter from apple hypervisor to tcg with few more extra parameters which UTM use

I was about to ask what the "few more extra parameters" are, but it looks like you are working on a PR for this already, so I'll wait until you open that for review! :)

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@gayanper Do you plan to submit a PR?

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Yes i will provide a PR with the suggested changes during today.

gayanper added a commit to gayanper/lima that referenced this issue Dec 24, 2021
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Fix lima-vm#471: Improve x86_64 emulation on arm64 platform
ef4472c 
This change will use qemu64 cpu for better emulation
and add some extra parameters like tcg accel and
force multi threading where multiple host threads will
be used for vcpus according to qemu documentation.
Added few more extra parameters which are used by
UTM for better emulation of x86_64
gayanper added a commit to gayanper/lima that referenced this issue Dec 24, 2021
@gayanper
Fix lima-vm#471: Improve x86_64 emulation on arm64 platform
e603e38 
This change will use qemu64 cpu for better emulation
and add some extra parameters like tcg accel and
force multi threading where multiple host threads will
be used for vcpus according to qemu documentation.
Added few more extra parameters which are used by
UTM for better emulation of x86_64

Signed-off-by: Gayan Perera <[email protected]>
gayanper added a commit to gayanper/lima that referenced this issue Dec 25, 2021
@gayanper
Fix lima-vm#471: Improve x86_64 emulation on arm64 platform
f4a3b21 
This change will use qemu64 cpu for better emulation
and add some extra parameters like tcg accel and
force multi threading where multiple host threads will
be used for vcpus according to qemu documentation.
Added few more extra parameters which are used by
UTM for better emulation of x86_64

Signed-off-by: Gayan Perera <[email protected]>
@AkihiroSuda AkihiroSuda linked a pull request Dec 27, 2021 that will close this issue
Fix #471: Improve x86_64 emulation on arm64 platform #494
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gayanper added a commit to gayanper/lima that referenced this issue Dec 27, 2021
@gayanper
Fix lima-vm#471: Improve x86_64 emulation on arm64 platform
c038c98 
This change will use qemu64 cpu for better emulation
and add some extra parameters like tcg accel and
force multi threading where multiple host threads will
be used for vcpus according to qemu documentation.
Added few more extra parameters which are used by
UTM for better emulation of x86_64

Signed-off-by: Gayan Perera <[email protected]>
AkihiroSuda added a commit that referenced this issue Dec 28, 2021
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Merge pull request #494 from gayanper/patch-1
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Fix #471: Improve x86_64 emulation on arm64 platform
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