Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Killing KQEMU

[Gleb Natapov]

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:50:26PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>
> Am 06.06.2009 um 13:27 schrieb Paul Brook:
>
>>> A very nice use case of QEMU is that it works cross-platform, cross-
>>> hardware.
>>
>> This actually argues against using kqemu as it only works in on  
>> "native"
>> hosts.
>
> Nope. It means that I can easily interchange identical VMs between  
> accelerated (e.g. kqemu) and unaccelerated emulators. It works great,  
> with the same command line[1], since it does not appear to change the  
> hardware configuration [2].
>
> This does not rule out KVM as future replacement, obviously, if KVM- 
> specific things like virtio etc. do not interfere.
There is nothing KVM specific in virtio.

> But still dropping kqemu means having an unaccelerated emulation on  
> those machines not capable of running KVM due to hardware, OS or KVM- 
> versioning issues.
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] assuming no -kernel-kqemu
> [2] as opposed to moving guest images between different virtualization/ 
> emulation solutions
>
>

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                        Gleb.