[Qemu-devel] General information about the QEMU project

[Qemu-devel] General information about the QEMU project

[loki84]

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Hi

I am searching for some informations about QEMU.

1.
Currently it's possible to compile and run QEMU under Windows. Is there a
fixed support for Windows platforms (as Host)? Or is it possible that newer
releases only work on Linux platforms?

2.
I have searched for an "atapi cdrom passthrough" feature and found a (old)
patch for Linux.
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=qemu-devel&a=2009-06&t=11010205

Is "passthrough" support implemented in QEMU? Does this also work with
Windows hosts? Or is there a major reason why this feature is not
implemented in QEMU?

3.
How long will the comunity support QEMU in the future? It seems for me with
all the new virtualization technologies (CPU, ...) QEMU will be useless
sometimes.

Thank you all in previous.

loki84

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Re: [Qemu-devel] General information about the QEMU project

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:14:17PM +0200, loki84@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am searching for some informations about QEMU.
> 
> 1.
> Currently it's possible to compile and run QEMU under Windows. Is there a
> fixed support for Windows platforms (as Host)? Or is it possible that newer
> releases only work on Linux platforms?

As long as there are some people who care for Windows, reporting bugs
and patches, it will be supported. I don't think support for Windows
will disappear soon.

> 2.
> I have searched for an "atapi cdrom passthrough" feature and found a (old)
> patch for Linux.
> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=qemu-devel&a=2009-06&t=11010205
> 
> Is "passthrough" support implemented in QEMU? Does this also work with
> Windows hosts? Or is there a major reason why this feature is not
> implemented in QEMU?

This atapi passthrough has never been merged.

> 3.
> How long will the comunity support QEMU in the future? It seems for me with
> all the new virtualization technologies (CPU, ...) QEMU will be useless
> sometimes.
> 

QEMU will never be useless, as the new virtualization technologies do
not solve the problem of emulating an ARM machine on a MIPS machine.
Moreover virtualization technologies are only the hardware part, a
software part is needed, and for example KVM is based on QEMU.

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