From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:56:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52134B48.6040502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52127D4B.40109@weilnetz.de>
Il 19/08/2013 22:17, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> is anybody working on KVM or something equivalent for Windows and Mac OS X?
>
> I recently noticed that the QEMU based Android emulator uses KVM for Linux
> and HAXM, an Intel hypervisor, for Windows and Mac OS X.
>
> Would it be a good plan to merge HAXM support in latest QEMU
> (the Android QEMU is based on a rather old version)? It only
> supports Intel based hosts, is restricted to 32 bit guests (?)
> and free, but not open source.
Considering the level of openness in both Windows and Mac OS X, a
proprietary hypervisor would be the smallest of the problems for someone
using those OSes...
I guess "patches are welcome"---if they are of good quality, why not.
The community doesn't have that many kernel hackers for Windows and Mac
OS X.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-20 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-19 20:17 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X? Stefan Weil
2013-08-20 10:56 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-20 11:12 ` Peter Maydell
2013-08-21 9:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-21 9:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 9:33 ` Stefan Weil
2013-08-21 10:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-20 14:55 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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