From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon Subject: Re: QEMU Accel - git tree Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:38:44 -0500 Message-ID: <20080704213844.GB29672@tapir> References: <5d6222a80807041340j367cfe3ah67a9d771caa0ee63@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity , Anthony Liguori , Chris Wright , Jes Sorensen To: Glauber Costa Return-path: Received: from tapir.sajinet.com.pe ([66.139.79.212]:41466 "EHLO tapir.sajinet.com.pe" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752652AbYGDVOK (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:14:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80807041340j367cfe3ah67a9d771caa0ee63@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:40:03PM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote: > Hey Folks > > I'm publishing a git repository for the QEMU Accel patches. It lives at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/qemu/glommer/qemu-accel.git for the few of us that had been living under a rock, could you give an explanation on what is QEMU Accel and why we need one? google bounced me back to the a broken link in the qemu homepage that doesn't have a reference to it, and also showed some patches which seem to be trying to abstract kqemu and kvm which I presume are part of this git tree. how is this mean to fit on a qemu or kvm installation, and if its main objective is to be able to have a version of qemu compiled with support for both kvm and kqemu accelerators, is it at least feature complete enough to have that working and let you select which one to use?, under which circumstances? Carlo From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEsbe-0000O2-1C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:14:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEsbc-0000MT-2k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:14:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53617 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEsbb-0000MN-ND for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:14:11 -0400 Received: from tapir.sajinet.com.pe ([66.139.79.212]:41467) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KEsbb-0006bc-TX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:14:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:38:44 -0500 From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon Message-ID: <20080704213844.GB29672@tapir> References: <5d6222a80807041340j367cfe3ah67a9d771caa0ee63@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80807041340j367cfe3ah67a9d771caa0ee63@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU Accel - git tree Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Glauber Costa Cc: Chris Wright , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Jes Sorensen , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:40:03PM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote: > Hey Folks > > I'm publishing a git repository for the QEMU Accel patches. It lives at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/qemu/glommer/qemu-accel.git for the few of us that had been living under a rock, could you give an explanation on what is QEMU Accel and why we need one? google bounced me back to the a broken link in the qemu homepage that doesn't have a reference to it, and also showed some patches which seem to be trying to abstract kqemu and kvm which I presume are part of this git tree. how is this mean to fit on a qemu or kvm installation, and if its main objective is to be able to have a version of qemu compiled with support for both kvm and kqemu accelerators, is it at least feature complete enough to have that working and let you select which one to use?, under which circumstances? Carlo