From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CziLD-0003ZK-Gr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:28:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CziL6-0003VW-4r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:28:36 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CziL3-0003Pa-6X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:28:33 -0500 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Czhkx-000714-HW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:51:16 -0500 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Czhbb-0002N4-2X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:41:35 +0100 Received: from 203.7.227.188 ([203.7.227.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:41:35 +0100 Received: from wildfire by 203.7.227.188 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:41:35 +0100 From: Anand Kumria Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:16:53 +1100 Message-ID: References: <420BEEB7.1010906@bellard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: The QEMU Accelerator Module Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:31:03 +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Hi, > > I just commited the first alpha release of the QEMU Accelerator Module > (aka KQEMU) in the CVS. It gives better performance for the "x86 on x86" > case by running most of the application code as is. It works only for a > Linux x86 host running a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and > Windows 2000 have been runnning as guest OSes, but other OSes may work as > well. As with every alpha kernel driver testing, it is better to backup > your data before trying it. > > KQEMU is _not_ open source as the rest of QEMU. It is a proprietary kernel > module (read the LICENSE file) and will stay so until a gentle company > decides to subsidy the QEMU project. Is it really fair to distribute a proprietary module from a free software source code repository? Anand