Re: [RFC] QEMU KVM target

[Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:55 +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
>   
>> Howdy Anthony,
>>
>>     
>>> Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target.  The main difference
>>> between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target
>>> does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure.  This means that it will
>>> build with gcc-4.  I know you can do --cc=gcc to use gcc-4 but quite a
>>> few versions of gcc-4 have trouble with compiling dyngen.
>>>       
>> I understand that your approach is to remove the "binary translation"
>> part of the vanilla qemu, because we dont need it. We only need the
>> device emulation code of qemu for kvm. Do I understand correctly?
>>
>> If so, we do not need to depend on gcc3 tricks anymore. Removing the
>> dependent on gcc3 is really an important achievement.
>>     
>
> Does your patch still call the binary qemu?  It'd be nice for
> distributions to have a real qemu still available as 'qemu', and the
> kvm-specific one as something else.
>   

It calls it qemu-kvm (or qemu-system-x86_64-kvm).  I'd like to find a 
better name, perhaps qemu-system-i386-accel or something.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Rusty.
>
>
>   


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