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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've been trying to use Qemu to do some test installs of Ubuntu |
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> server. I've used Qemu successfully in the past, but it seems to have |
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> hit a dead end. The "stable" version (0.11) of Qemu just plain |
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> doesn't work. There are constant segfaults and kernel panics in the |
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> guest environment. |
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Version 0.11 is more than two years old. I don't use stable Gentoo; is |
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a 2-year-old version of a frequently-updated package normal in stable, |
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or is the Qemu in Gentoo in need of some attention? |
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> I updated to the ~x86 version (0.14) -- while the guest OS installs |
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> and runs OK, kernel acceleration (kqemu module) is no longer |
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> supported, and without it Qemu is really slow. |
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I am not a Qemu user, but I seem to remember reading that the |
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preferred method for hardware virtualization/acceleration with Qemu |
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nowadays is KVM. |
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> For now I've switched to VirtualBox, but the console implementation in |
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> VirtualBox is nightmarishly slow. When I do -l looks like it's |
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> scrolling by at about 9600 baud. |
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> Is Qemu dead? Or just dying? |
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The latest version (0.15) was released last month and the Qemu-dev |
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mailing list has a lot of activity (few dozen messages per day), so it |
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seems alive to me. |
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