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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:24:52 +0300
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Killing KQEMU
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To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Cc: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:50:26PM +0200, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote:
>
> Am 06.06.2009 um 13:27 schrieb Paul Brook:
>
>>> A very nice use case of QEMU is that it works cross-platform, cross-
>>> hardware.
>>
>> This actually argues against using kqemu as it only works in on =20
>> "native"
>> hosts.
>
> Nope. It means that I can easily interchange identical VMs between =20
> accelerated (e.g. kqemu) and unaccelerated emulators. It works great, =20
> with the same command line[1], since it does not appear to change the =20
> hardware configuration [2].
>
> This does not rule out KVM as future replacement, obviously, if KVM-=20
> specific things like virtio etc. do not interfere.
There is nothing KVM specific in virtio.

> But still dropping kqemu means having an unaccelerated emulation on =20
> those machines not capable of running KVM due to hardware, OS or KVM-=20
> versioning issues.
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] assuming no -kernel-kqemu
> [2] as opposed to moving guest images between different virtualization/=
=20
> emulation solutions
>
>

--
			Gleb.