From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 31 22:20:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714FD106566C for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:20:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA718FC12 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 93F491E0035F; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:20:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7VMH6Kc033624; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:17:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n7VMH6Zk033623; Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:17:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:17:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200908312217.n7VMH6Zk033623@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: ivoras@freebsd.org X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.emulation In-Reply-To: References: <20090829222339.GA93608@triton8.kn-bremen.de> Organization: home Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experimental FreeBSD qemu-devel git head port update for testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:20:13 -0000 In article you write: >Juergen Lock wrote: > >> The bad news (for FreeBSD users anyway) is kqemu support has now been >> removed as `promised' (by the upstream qemu developers), so testing this >> version is probably less interesting for many FreeBSD users than the > >Why was kqemu support removed? Lack of interest and testing? In a way... Linux has moved on to kvm now (and yes we could relly use an up to date and working port for that [1]!), the original kqemu author has left the project and so there was no real maintainer for that code anymore that would have removed limitations kqemu imposed on qemu like the ~2G guest ram limit, or even make kqemu ready for inclusion in the Linux kernel... (since Linux seems to have a policy of discouraging out-of-tree kernel modules; kvm btw is in there now.) [1] Links: kvm: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page older (gsoc 07) kvm porting project: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FabioChecconi/PortingLinuxKVMToFreeBSD another seemingly dormant kvm-like project: http://sp01.cs.rice.edu/comp521/index.php/fkvm