From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCzHi-0005hG-Bc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:02:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCzHd-0005fQ-QY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:02:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54084 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCzHd-0005fM-Gz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:02:17 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:40746) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCzHc-0005Sz-QA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:02:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4A2AA10B.6060401@web.de> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:02:03 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4A26F1E3.1040509@codemonkey.ws> <4A2A92FE.2010700@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig787D634C972AD1E15B59992B" Sender: jan.kiszka@web.de Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: POLL: Why do you use kqemu? List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= , Avi Kivity , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig787D634C972AD1E15B59992B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Blue Swirl wrote: > On 6/6/09, Avi Kivity wrote: >> Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote: >> >>> Or as another example, I've been unable to try KVM with svn/git QEMU >> because new capability defines keep being added that block compiling Q= EMU >> with KVM from any mainstream distribution. With nobody here being able= to >> recommend a working distribution, that makes KVM a moot alternative, >> especially on systems you can't install your own kernel modules on. I = just >> hope that Fedora 11 will let me try it. >> Try qemu-kvm.git, that should compile and run on almost anything (and= is a >> lot faster and more featureful than kvm support in qemu.git). >=20 > Maybe the backwards compatibility features should be ported to QEMU? > For example, is there a workaround for > #error Missing KVM capability KVM_CAP_DESTROY_MEMORY_REGION_WORKS > ? Given that we have always-up-to-date kvm-kmod packages with support down to reasonable kernel versions, I would prefer to keep upstream clean from old workarounds. They should only be needed for issues found very recently (KVM_CAP_JOIN_MEMORY_REGIONS_WORKS) or that might be found in the future. Jan --------------enig787D634C972AD1E15B59992B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoqoRYACgkQniDOoMHTA+lVzwCfUAowYvmYG9R82mAudcNUGXXl xMYAnRzBerogxVCcmBMLRmAFgM2ZD21z =0ewm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig787D634C972AD1E15B59992B--