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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Qemu dead?
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:27:57
Message-Id: CAK2H+ecf8yhoabZrQGa9Rgn7VMWbu=8ffvZP=qPdz8NveVCoMA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is Qemu dead? by Grant Edwards
1 On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Grant Edwards
2 <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > I've been trying to use Qemu to do some test installs of Ubuntu
4 > server.  I've used Qemu successfully in the past, but it seems to have
5 > hit a dead end.  The "stable" version (0.11) of Qemu just plain
6 > doesn't work. There are constant segfaults and kernel panics in the
7 > guest environment.
8 >
9 > I updated to the ~x86 version (0.14) -- while the guest OS installs
10 > and runs OK, kernel acceleration (kqemu module) is no longer
11 > supported, and without it Qemu is really slow.
12 >
13 > For now I've switched to VirtualBox, but the console implementation in
14 > VirtualBox is nightmarishly slow. When I do -l looks like it's
15 > scrolling by at about 9600 baud.
16 >
17 > Is Qemu dead?  Or just dying?
18 >
19 > --
20 > Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! What UNIVERSE is this,
21 >                                  at               please??
22 >                              gmail.com
23 >
24 >
25
26 I don't think it's dead at all. I see those guys interacting with the
27 KVM developers. I've never used Qemu but I suspect that the kqemu
28 stuff you're looking for is now what they're doing with KVM which
29 seems to be a pretty lively project. Qemu is not at 0.15 so it looks
30 like portage is a bit behind I guess.
31
32 HTH,
33 Mark