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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:42:06 -0500
From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu runtime loading
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To: J?r?me Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:06:30PM +0100, J?r?me Warnier wrote:
> It would be great if kqemu could be loaded at runtime instead of
> requiring qemu to be rebuild.

This is more or less already the case.

You can compile and distribute a kqemu enabled qemu binary w/o needing to
include kqemu in the package.

Compiling from source for kqemu support sans kqemu modules also looks doable
but I haven't tried that.

> For packaged versions of qemu (most Linux distributions do those days),
> you have to rebuild it yourself (without packaging) instead of using the
> neat available package.
> 
> Would it be hard to do?
> Any plans to do it?

It can be done. It is their choice to not do it.

> 
> Regards
> 

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