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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:10:18 +0100
From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Adrian Smarzewski wrote:
> Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> 
>> In order to have similar features to dosemu in QEMU, implementing MFS 
>> support in QEMU would be useful, but it would require a lot of work.
> 
> I think QEMU should rather focus on x86-x86 speed now (to be full 
> replacement of VMWare) and use as much external code for features as 
> possible instead of implementing it.
> QEMU is usable now. There are two disadvantages: speed of emulation 
> compared to virtualisation (maybe some switch to enable virtualisation 
> mode instead of emulation? ;)) and lack of USB support for example.
> But I would vote for optimizations!

It was just a suggestion for DOS users :-)

x86 on x86 optimization is now the top item on my TODO list...

Fabrice.