Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

[dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>]

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On 8/4/07, Ricardo Almeida <ric.almeida@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm just a user...
>
> Is it planned to submit kqemu to lkml for inclusion into the mainline
> > kernel?
>
>
> Never seen anyone talking about this...
>
> if not why?
>
>
> Maybe because KVM was included (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6aa8b732ca01c3d7a54e93f4d701b8aabbe60fb7
> )
>

I know that

if yes any idea when? is it possible to try to get it in 2.6.24 ?
> >
>
> I don't know if Linus would accept it. As I said, KVM was included,
> although kqemu as the advantage of working in older hardware (without AMD-V
> or Intel equivalent virtualization instructions).
> Maybe if it was possible to make merge kqemu into KVM to take the best of
> the two... But I don't know anything about KVM nor kqemu code...


thats the reason I  (and many other users) want to see it merged.
for ex. the fedora kernel maintainers don't want to add it until its part of
the upstream kernel.

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