[Qemu-devel] KQemu on AMD64 or PPC?

[Qemu-devel] KQemu on AMD64 or PPC?

[Jason Gress]

As I have been messing around with KQemu, I have really liked the performance 
gain.  I even tried a 2D-only game, and it worked quite well!  The major 
performance problem I saw was mostly graphics related from what I can see.  
You can see each frame update; I am sure with a faster graphics engine/driver 
that mapped to a fast display protocol (OpenGL?) it would be a lot better.  
That, or my ATI's 2D performance with SDL is a lot slower than I thought. 
Thoughts?  ;)  Sound has also improved a lot, so kudos there as well!  

One thing I am wondering is if/when AMD64 or other hosts will get to see these 
improvements.  I understand that PPC would of course only KQemu on a PPC 
client, but what about AMD64?  Will i386 (or x86_64) clients be able to see 
these improvements, or will the kernel module not compile at this time?  I 
don't have access to an AMD64 system right now, or I'd give it a shot.  I am 
curious, as I have a friend with an AMD64, and I'd like to get one sometime 
this year.  Of course, hopefully Fabrice gets a job ;) and we can all play 
with a completely open source version of KQemu by then! :)

	Jason

[Qemu-devel] Re: KQemu on AMD64 or PPC?

[Rudi Lippert]

I am using QEMU (not KQemu) on AMD64 and I would gladly test KQemu on my
computer.
If you (Fabrice) could build KQemu for AMD64, I will inform you of any
success or failure I experience. In the meantime, I'd suggest you provide a
proper error message for users trying to build QEMU with KQemu support,
since it is just not supported.
Cheers,

Rudi


Jason Gress wrote:

> As I have been messing around with KQemu, I have really liked the
> performance
> gain.  I even tried a 2D-only game, and it worked quite well!  The major
> performance problem I saw was mostly graphics related from what I can see.
> You can see each frame update; I am sure with a faster graphics
> engine/driver that mapped to a fast display protocol (OpenGL?) it would be
> a lot better. That, or my ATI's 2D performance with SDL is a lot slower
> than I thought.
> Thoughts?  ;)  Sound has also improved a lot, so kudos there as well!
> 
> One thing I am wondering is if/when AMD64 or other hosts will get to see
> these
> improvements.  I understand that PPC would of course only KQemu on a PPC
> client, but what about AMD64?  Will i386 (or x86_64) clients be able to
> see
> these improvements, or will the kernel module not compile at this time?  I
> don't have access to an AMD64 system right now, or I'd give it a shot.  I
> am curious, as I have a friend with an AMD64, and I'd like to get one
> sometime
> this year.  Of course, hopefully Fabrice gets a job ;) and we can all play
> with a completely open source version of KQemu by then! :)
> 
> Jason

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KQemu on AMD64 or PPC?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

KQEMU on AMD64 is coming soon... (don't know when though)..

Thanks,
Hetz


On 4/27/05, Rudi Lippert <Rudi@lyrikpage.de> wrote:
> I am using QEMU (not KQemu) on AMD64 and I would gladly test KQemu on my
> computer.
> If you (Fabrice) could build KQemu for AMD64, I will inform you of any
> success or failure I experience. In the meantime, I'd suggest you provide a
> proper error message for users trying to build QEMU with KQemu support,
> since it is just not supported.
> Cheers,
> 
> Rudi
> 
> 
> Jason Gress wrote:
> 
> > As I have been messing around with KQemu, I have really liked the
> > performance
> > gain.  I even tried a 2D-only game, and it worked quite well!  The major
> > performance problem I saw was mostly graphics related from what I can see.
> > You can see each frame update; I am sure with a faster graphics
> > engine/driver that mapped to a fast display protocol (OpenGL?) it would be
> > a lot better. That, or my ATI's 2D performance with SDL is a lot slower
> > than I thought.
> > Thoughts?  ;)  Sound has also improved a lot, so kudos there as well!
> >
> > One thing I am wondering is if/when AMD64 or other hosts will get to see
> > these
> > improvements.  I understand that PPC would of course only KQemu on a PPC
> > client, but what about AMD64?  Will i386 (or x86_64) clients be able to
> > see
> > these improvements, or will the kernel module not compile at this time?  I
> > don't have access to an AMD64 system right now, or I'd give it a shot.  I
> > am curious, as I have a friend with an AMD64, and I'd like to get one
> > sometime
> > this year.  Of course, hopefully Fabrice gets a job ;) and we can all play
> > with a completely open source version of KQemu by then! :)
> >
> > Jason
> 
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KQemu on AMD64 or PPC?

[Fabrice Bellard]

An alpha version of kqemu for x86_64 will be released in the next few days.

Fabrice.

Rudi Lippert wrote:
> I am using QEMU (not KQemu) on AMD64 and I would gladly test KQemu on my
> computer.
> If you (Fabrice) could build KQemu for AMD64, I will inform you of any
> success or failure I experience. In the meantime, I'd suggest you provide a
> proper error message for users trying to build QEMU with KQemu support,
> since it is just not supported.
> Cheers,
> 
> Rudi