Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:17:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: ivoras@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experimental FreeBSD qemu-devel git head port update for testing Message-ID: <200908312217.n7VMH6Zk033623@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <h7g1eg$s8f$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20090829222339.GA93608@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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In article <h7g1eg$s8f$1@ger.gmane.org> 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
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