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On 2011-09-28, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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; |
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> is a 2-year-old version of a frequently-updated package normal in |
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> stable, 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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Yes, I should have known that. I had forgotten that kqemu and |
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qemu-kvm were two completely different things. |
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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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That's good to hear. I've used it extensively in the past for testing |
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eCos (an embedded RTOS) software on a "PC motherboard" target. Glad to |
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know it's still kicking. |
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