From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0LtY-0003kQ-8G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:37:44 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56002 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0LtW-0003ja-RN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:37:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0LtU-0000OW-Bi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:37:42 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.82.174]:40717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0LtU-0000OI-75 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:37:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:21:45 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] General information about the QEMU project Message-ID: <20100409172145.GD21042@volta.aurel32.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: loki84@gmail.com Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:14:17PM +0200, loki84@gmail.com wrote: > Hi > > I am searching for some informations about QEMU. > > 1. > Currently it's possible to compile and run QEMU under Windows. Is there a > fixed support for Windows platforms (as Host)? Or is it possible that newer > releases only work on Linux platforms? As long as there are some people who care for Windows, reporting bugs and patches, it will be supported. I don't think support for Windows will disappear soon. > 2. > I have searched for an "atapi cdrom passthrough" feature and found a (old) > patch for Linux. > http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=qemu-devel&a=2009-06&t=11010205 > > Is "passthrough" support implemented in QEMU? Does this also work with > Windows hosts? Or is there a major reason why this feature is not > implemented in QEMU? This atapi passthrough has never been merged. > 3. > How long will the comunity support QEMU in the future? It seems for me with > all the new virtualization technologies (CPU, ...) QEMU will be useless > sometimes. > QEMU will never be useless, as the new virtualization technologies do not solve the problem of emulating an ARM machine on a MIPS machine. Moreover virtualization technologies are only the hardware part, a software part is needed, and for example KVM is based on QEMU. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net