Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[Avi Kivity]

 On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> > > I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in qemu
> > > that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it useful
> > > for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial work
> > > needs something faster than tcg.
> > Riiight.. Here's a story, my work duties required me to fiddled with
> More examples of industrial use are Nokia and Palm using OpenEmbedded
> building firmware for their phones, which afaik I relies for some
> parts on qemu (just some parts, so the tcg performance doesn't impact
> overall performance that much).  There are many more users of OE, but
> these two have products in shops near me.

Well, both these examples are very far from the typical end user or even 
typical developer.

No doubt anything is useful for someone, given the are 6.7Gp of us on 
this planet.

Are those examples worth the effort?  I don't know, but I'm sceptical.

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