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Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu? |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Jun 2009 01:13:12 +0100 |
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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
- [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Anthony Liguori, 2009/06/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Lennart Sorensen, 2009/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Johannes Schindelin, 2009/06/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?,
Jamie Lokier <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Jamie Lokier, 2009/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Jamie Lokier, 2009/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Jan Kiszka, 2009/06/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Jan Kiszka, 2009/06/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Avi Kivity, 2009/06/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: POLL: Why do you use kqemu?, Jan Kiszka, 2009/06/08