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On 05/08/2014 06:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Actually it could use KVM instead of CPU emulation on nearly all modern processors...

That being said, it would be cool if someone would either port the
lredir backend (MFS) into Qemu, or finish the 9P front end I started
writing at one point, but probably will never have time to finish.
	
	-hpa