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

["René Rebe" <rene@exactcode.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> René Rebe wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>> Indeed. Though I used KVM for the past months to do Linux development
>> and system testing / integration I had a use case for kqemu (non-VT CPU)
>> just this week and was surprised to find quite "old" kqemu release 
>> just build
>> and work for booth 2.6.26 and 2.6.28. And so far there was no problem 
>> with
>> it.
>>
>> While I have no problem having it long time ported to the KVM interface,
>> just declaring some quite useful and functional piece of open source work
>> obsolete and unsupported quite drastic. This work should be not be lost
>> so easily.
> 
> I think you misunderstand.  Noone is claiming that kqemu is no longer 
> being supported.  Quite rather, we're simply stating it's never been 
> supported.
> 
> It started as a binary kernel module, impossible to support within the 
> QEMU community.  While Fabrice has open sourced kqemu, it's never been 
> included in QEMU.  It's not maintained by the current QEMU maintainers 
> and not supported by the current QEMU maintainers.

I know about the history pretty well.

Btw. is Farbrice still actively working on Qemu related code these
days?

> It's essentially a separate project.

Well - depends. The user-space part always was in Qemu, but the
kernel module apparently is a little left aside. However, this
should not stop us from improving the situation instead of letting
it bitrott.

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