qemu (was: Re: [PATCH] Add a VirtualBox section to Handbook's 'Virtualization' chapter)

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 21:02:22 UTC 2009


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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Juergen Lock<nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> In article <4ad871310907191211i7fb8a7f5qb146ed8b2038f06e at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>>On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Manolis Kiagias<manolis at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>[really big snip]
>>
>>>
>>> This is a good point, and one I have not actually considered.
>>> I believe Qemu is not mentioned anywhere in the Handbook and I guess it
>>> deserves a place here.
>>>
>>
>>While it is not mentioned in the Handbook, there is a Wiki page about
>>Qemu [1].  Out of curiosity however, I remember nox@ mentioning that
>>KQemu will no longer be developed [2].  My interpretation of that
>>announcement was that Qemu will no longer be developed as well.  Is
>>this incorrect?
>
> Actually it is, qemu itself is very much alive and kicking, its just
> its virtualization support that has moved focus from kqemu to kvm.
> (And yes we really could use an up-to-date and working port for that...)
>

Juergen,

Glad to see I was misinterpreting the announcement.   Thanks!

-- 
Glen Barber



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