Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU-fast and guest os

[Magnus Damm]

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 16:06, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> > can or will qemu-fast ever be able to have Windows/XP/2000/2003 as a
> > guest?
> 
> No. QEMU-Fast requires a patched *guest* kernel and since Windows is not
> open source, such a patch cannot be made.

True.
But, we could focus on improving the softmmu code a bit instead. That
might improve performance for most guest operating systems. Regardless
of host architecture and patches for the guest.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-10/msg00303.html

/ magnus