From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CfjXh-00089D-NT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:43:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CfjXg-00088d-Mf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:43:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CfjXg-00088U-8r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:43:00 -0500 Received: from [212.16.62.51] (helo=mail.13thfloor.at) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cfivg-0006qw-Az for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:03:44 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:03:39 +0100 From: Herbert Poetzl Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] SMB for DOS ? Message-ID: <20041218180339.GA8020@mail.13thfloor.at> References: <41C20E6A.7010507@bellard.org> <41C210A3.30406@kadu.net> <41C215DA.4050805@bellard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C215DA.4050805@bellard.org> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Fabrice Bellard Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:10:18AM +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Adrian Smarzewski wrote: > >Fabrice Bellard wrote: > > > >>In order to have similar features to dosemu in QEMU, implementing MFS > >>support in QEMU would be useful, but it would require a lot of work. > > > >I think QEMU should rather focus on x86-x86 speed now (to be full > >replacement of VMWare) and use as much external code for features as > >possible instead of implementing it. > >QEMU is usable now. There are two disadvantages: speed of emulation > >compared to virtualisation (maybe some switch to enable virtualisation > >mode instead of emulation? ;)) and lack of USB support for example. > >But I would vote for optimizations! > > It was just a suggestion for DOS users :-) > > x86 on x86 optimization is now the top item on my TODO list... good to hear .. maybe I dig out the changes I did to get a 2-4 times performance improvement for x86 (qemu-fast) with qemu 0.5.5 ... mainly improvements in the way the mainloop is handled (worked fine for userspace, had some issues with kernels) ... Fabrice, you are doing a great job! thanks, Herbert > Fabrice. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel