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Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005
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Brad Campbell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005 |
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Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:42:58 +0400 |
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Daniel Egger wrote:
On 12.02.2005, at 11:18, Brad Campbell wrote:
Following Fabrice decision to transform QEMU into a proprietary
closed solution without any kind of future, I don't find any reason
to loose my company time and money fostering FreeOSZoo.
Woah.. what a severe knee jerk reaction based on nothing. Perhaps
before throwing your toys out of the pram, taking your bat and ball
and heading home you might actually wait for a reply from Fabrice
clarifying his intentions?
Your reply is pretty much bollocks. In the same way Fabrice is
free to start commercialising his smart product QEmu, no matter
what the intentions behind that action are, Jean-Michel is free
to stop his contribution to QEmu.
Indeed. My reply was more along the lines of waiting to find out exactly what is going on prior to
chucking a wobbly.
[1] For instance it will at the moment only compile on certain
Linux systems while OS X and Windows are still broke. Also
kqemu will only work on 32bit x86 Linux kernels which means
that a constantly increasing number of people of x86_64 users
will not be able to benefit from the advantages. I for one
will have to stick to qemu-fast for the time being because I
certainly have no intention to reboot my Dual-Opteron into
pure 32bit mode every time I want to use qemu; mind you that
SMP on x86_64 does not work too well in 32bit mode.
If you recall, the stated objective was to speed up x86 on x86, this meets the stated objective.
Where is the problem? If you want to improve x86 on x86_64, then work on it. keqmu is alpha software
at the moment. It was plainly stated that it will only work on x86 Linux kernels at present, but
other hosts may follow. Give the guy a break before you bust his balls.
Can qemu-fast run anything other than free operating systems? The tested target
for kqemu was win2k.
Everything has a reason, and I'm sure all will become clear in good time. Stop
jumping to conclusions.
<quote>
KQEMU is _not_ open source as the rest of QEMU. It is a proprietary kernel module (read the LICENSE
file) and will stay so until a gentle company decides to subsidy the QEMU project.
KQEMU usage is optional: you can disable it at compilation or run time, so no
one is forced to use it.
</quote>
So don't use that part of the emulator. Simple.
<My own opinion ahead, take with sack of salt>
What is being built here is a system that will rival vmware. Doing this takes time and at the moment
there are several companies watching qemu with an eye to using it as the core of their technology.
(As they can with the current license). If Fabrice releases the accelerator under the same license
as the rest of the project, these companies have no incentive to contribute financially to the
project. Simple. It's a lever. I'm quite sure that in time, someone is going to value the product
highly enough to pay for it, which in turn will allow the opening of the source. All in good time.
In the mean time, deal with it. Use it if you want to (I am and it's great). If you don't, then do
what you were doing before. If you can't use it because it just does not work for your particular
application, talk to Fabrice about helping out perhaps.
It's under development, the rest will come with time.
</My opinion>
Brad
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- [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Jean-Michel POURE, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Magnus Damm, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Brad Campbell, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Daniel Egger, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005,
Brad Campbell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Daniel Egger, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Fabrice Bellard, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Jernej Simončič, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Daniel Egger, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Darrin Ritter, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Jernej Simončič, 2005/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Daniel Egger, 2005/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005, Jim C. Brown, 2005/02/13
- [Qemu-devel] Plex86 and Qemu, jeebs, 2005/02/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Plex86 and Qemu, Jim C. Brown, 2005/02/13