Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Cutting a new QEMU release

["René Rebe" <rene@exactcode.de>]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009, Rick Vernam wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 05 February 2009 8:26:04 am Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>     
>>> kqemu is unsupported and unmaintained.
>>>       
>> Interesting.  When did it fall into that status?
>>     
>
> IMHO It's pretty much always been that way.
>
>   
>> The Maintainers file shows Fabrice as the maintainer of kqemu.  I suppose
>> that needs to be updated?
>>
>> I see Fabrice released 1.4.0pre1 on May 30th, 2008, although I never did
>> see anything declaring it unsupported (I'm not suggesting it was never
>> declared, just that I never saw any such declaration).
>>
>> Are there any plans to support it in the future?  This really is quite a
>> shock to me, actually.  I know qemu has a wide range of uses - but for me
>> and surely others, virtualization is a primary use.  To the best of my
>> knowledge, kvm requires hardware support - where does this leave the class
>> of users who need virtualization & don't have hardware virtualization
>> support?  Are we no longer the a target audience of qemu?  If not, fine,
>> but apparently a statement needs to be made...
>>     
>
> You have the source, you're free to fork and maintain it yourself.
>
> In practice Fabice is pretty much the only person who's ever done significant 
> work on kqemu (except maybe some fairly minor host OS porting bits). There's 
> never been a public source repository, so you get to use whatever random 
> tarballs Fabrice leaves lying around. If those don't work, noone really 
> cares.
>   
I find this rather drastic. So far it appears to work pretty well. And given
the sheer amount of CPU sililcon without VT/SVM it looks to be worth
keeping working. Maybe just to pull it into the Qemu SVN?

Btw. anyone knows what Fabice is doing these days?

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