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Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?


From: Jamie Lokier
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 01:13:12 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Yeah I don't either.  I actually thought kvm had replaced it effectively.
> 
> You might have realized from the available answers that not everybody is 
> lucky enough to be able to afford 2 week old hardware, and therefore not 
> everybody is able to use kvm.

Plus kvm's not suitable for some guests.  I'm thinking old Windows
guests with 16-bit kernel code here.

It has come up before that kvm will eventually support 16-bit code
better, although I got the impression that it would never support full
16-bit virtualisation accurately, so e.g. Windows 95 will not run on
it, nor some other partially 16-bit OSes.  Possibly not even very old
versions of Linux, I'm not sure.

Don't ask me _why_ I want to run them. :-)

Just a data point that it's not just about the host hardware, and as
far as I know kqemu can accelerate them.

-- Jamie




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