Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[andrzej zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>]

On 5 September 2010 19:51, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>  On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in
>>>> qemu
>>>> that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it
>>>> useful
>>>> for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial
>>>> work
>>>> needs something faster than tcg.
>>>
>>> Riiight.. Here's a story, my work duties required me to fiddled with
>>
>> More examples of industrial use are Nokia and Palm using OpenEmbedded
>> building firmware for their phones, which afaik I relies for some
>> parts on qemu (just some parts, so the tcg performance doesn't impact
>> overall performance that much).  There are many more users of OE, but
>> these two have products in shops near me.
>
> Well, both these examples are very far from the typical end user or even
> typical developer.

Some of the industrial users include all of their "app developers"
which count in big numbers.  Now I haven't installed Nokia or Palm's
SDKs but Poky's SDK (OE-based) does include qemu.  So I wouldn't be
surprised if the number of deployments is bigger than system mode
qemu.

Cheers