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

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Sun Jul 19 20:55:51 UTC 2009


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...)

 HTH,
	Juergen



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