Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Killing KQEMU

[Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:09:18PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> > Or let me put it another way: At some point I'll get fed up of the
> > limitations that kqemu currently imposes, and deliberately break it.
> 
> I would hope that anyone who deliberately breaks kqemu support would be
> kind enough to post that fact to the mailing list, with a description of
> what's broken and why, so that others may step up to the plate and fix it.

Perhaps so, but unless someone is actually going to fix kqemu or write a
replacement, I don't see what difference this really makes.

> According to other threads on this list, it would appear that getting
> KQEMU into the kernel is often thought of as impossible, or "would never
> happen."  So this isn't really a solution either.

More like "impossible because it *should* never happen".  kqemu is not
known to be secure.  I don't know what the position of developers for
kernels besides Linux is on this, but it's hardly the point, tbh...
-- 
Stuart Brady