Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005

[Darrin Ritter]

Here Goes the Flame war!!!!!

If a developer that is using GNU/linux for free is Developing a program
that will only be proprietary the they may as well stop using the free
software and go back to a proprietary system, they are already
benefiting from the hours of work that some one else has put into
developing software and it is hypocritical to close source your code and
use free (as in freedom) software

dv

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:18 +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:
> On 12.02.2005, at 19:11, Jernej Simončič wrote:
> 
> > Isn't the performance penalty only if you compare current Qemu with and
> > without the kernel module, and the speed without the module hasn't 
> > changed
> > compared to Qemu from before KQemu was available?
> 
> Nope, qemu-fast uses a patched Linux kernel (yes, the guest can
> *only* be Linux) to run Linux at very-close-to-native speed
> with very little translation in a different address space.
> 
> If you only intend to run Linux VMs and don't have a problem
> patching the kernel sources this is a very viable approach to
> get something which is not possible anymore *without* kqemu
> which is more flexible but does only run on 32bit kernels ATM.
> 
> Servus,
>        Daniel
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