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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Unbreak large mem support by removing
	kqemu
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:13:47 +0100
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

> kqemu introduces a number of restrictions on the i386 target.

> kvm is a viable alternative for people looking to accelerate qemu and has
> the benefit of being supported by the upstream Linux kernel.  If someone
> can implement work arounds to remove the restrictions introduced by kqemu,
> I'm happy to avoid and/or revert this patch.

> Paul, please Ack or Nack this patch.

Ok.

I think we've kept kqemu lying around in a semi-broken state long enough that 
we can demonstrate lack of active developer interest. Anyone that really cares 
can always retrieve it from git history and start from there.

Paul