From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 14:40:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikdCXse8rQrfAV2fs36sypNN6AkcF=ijVbWW4XY@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C83A679.7060907@redhat.com>
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but
>> performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with
>> alternatives that use proprietary kernel modules. Someone should
>> recreate kqemu by using KVM compatible interfaces.
>
> If someone is really willing to invest the effort to do that cleanly, I am
> willing to merge it into kvm. That would allow reuse of the mmu and some
> other logic that got a lot of effort in kvm.
>
> However, I doubt it is worth the effort, if anyone is interested in
> performance then they'd get a cpu that supports virtualization.
>
> That leaves non-Linux. Can qemu really compete there for x86-on-x86? I
> doubt it.
Someone could also make a KVM compatible module for non-Linux hosts
with virtualization capable CPUs. Wouldn't that solve most performance
problems?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-05 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 10:58 [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds Stefan Weil
[not found] ` <AANLkTik+R8MZKL8LBgPUeNeCd9nL-wp94rm0MmMVqzWT@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-11 11:10 ` Fwd: " Matthijs ter Woord
2010-08-11 16:34 ` Blue Swirl
2010-08-11 18:18 ` Stefan Weil
2010-08-11 18:51 ` Blue Swirl
2010-08-11 19:19 ` Blue Swirl
2010-08-11 19:37 ` Stefan Weil
2010-08-11 22:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-12 9:17 ` Stefan Weil
2010-08-12 12:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-17 8:19 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-08-15 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-08-15 21:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-16 8:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-16 18:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-08-16 20:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-17 10:09 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-08-17 13:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-17 18:38 ` Blue Swirl
2010-08-17 18:49 ` malc
2010-08-17 19:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-18 8:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-04 14:03 ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-05 15:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-05 16:35 ` Andreas Färber
2010-08-18 9:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2010-09-05 15:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-04 13:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-05 11:19 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 14:10 ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-05 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 14:40 ` Blue Swirl [this message]
2010-09-05 14:46 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 15:44 ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-05 15:57 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 15:01 ` Andreas Färber
2010-09-05 15:10 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 15:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-05 16:05 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 16:25 ` Blue Swirl
2010-09-05 16:31 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 17:33 ` malc
2010-09-05 17:44 ` andrzej zaborowski
2010-09-05 17:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 17:56 ` andrzej zaborowski
2010-09-05 17:57 ` Avi Kivity
2010-09-05 19:21 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2010-09-05 19:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-05 17:39 ` Peter Maydell
2010-09-05 19:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-06 8:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-06 9:33 ` Corentin Chary
2010-09-06 22:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-07 7:38 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-09-07 10:22 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-07 10:31 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-09-07 8:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-04 14:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andreas Färber
2010-09-05 10:03 ` Alexander Graf
2010-09-05 17:54 ` [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained ppc features (was: Unmaintained QEMU builds) Andreas Färber
2010-08-14 15:22 ` [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds Andreas Färber
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