From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBjcR-0000Ob-Qf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:57:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBjcJ-0004Yy-8x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:56:59 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::231]:48917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBjcJ-0004Yt-37 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:56:51 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f177.google.com with SMTP id m46so236335wev.36 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 03:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <52134B48.6040502@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:56:08 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <52127D4B.40109@weilnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <52127D4B.40109@weilnetz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: qemu-devel Il 19/08/2013 22:17, Stefan Weil ha scritto: > Hello, > > is anybody working on KVM or something equivalent for Windows and Mac OS X? > > I recently noticed that the QEMU based Android emulator uses KVM for Linux > and HAXM, an Intel hypervisor, for Windows and Mac OS X. > > Would it be a good plan to merge HAXM support in latest QEMU > (the Android QEMU is based on a rather old version)? It only > supports Intel based hosts, is restricted to 32 bit guests (?) > and free, but not open source. Considering the level of openness in both Windows and Mac OS X, a proprietary hypervisor would be the smallest of the problems for someone using those OSes... I guess "patches are welcome"---if they are of good quality, why not. The community doesn't have that many kernel hackers for Windows and Mac OS X. Paolo