Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Cutting a new QEMU release

[Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com>]

On Thursday 05 February 2009 8:26:04 am Anthony Liguori wrote:
> kqemu is unsupported and unmaintained.
Interesting.  When did it fall into that status?
The Maintainers file shows Fabrice as the maintainer of kqemu.  I suppose that 
needs to be updated?

I see Fabrice released 1.4.0pre1 on May 30th, 2008, although I never did see 
anything declaring it unsupported (I'm not suggesting it was never declared, 
just that I never saw any such declaration).

Are there any plans to support it in the future?  This really is quite a shock 
to me, actually.  I know qemu has a wide range of uses - but for me and surely 
others, virtualization is a primary use.  To the best of my knowledge, kvm 
requires hardware support - where does this leave the class of users who need 
virtualization & don't have hardware virtualization support?  Are we no longer 
the a target audience of qemu?  If not, fine, but apparently a statement needs 
to be made...

Also, I had considered the web site at http://bellard.org/qemu/ to be 
accurate.  Perhaps something should be done prior to a release so that those 
who browse to the site know that:
1 - the site is not an accurate source of information
or
2 - kqemu is no longer supported or maintained

Thanks
-Rick

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
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