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From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] -kernel-kqemu
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To: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:46:07AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I?m sorry, but I?ve been following the CVS commits and I haven?t
> understood this new option (fabrice has not written anything to this
> list about it and what it does for the end user).
> 
> Could someone please shed some light for me and others who didn?t
> understand whats going on please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 

-kernel-kqemu virtualizes ring 0 code.

So it basically makes qemu do what VMware does.

IIRC someone reported a 33% speedup with the new option.

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