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Re: [Qemu-devel] Unified device model


From: Johannes Schindelin
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unified device model
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 21:17:52 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 09:57:10PM +0200, Stanislav Shwartsman wrote:
> > 
> > It is not a secret that all open source emulators (QEMU, Bochs, Xen) use the
> > same emulated devices and mostly copy-paste their emulation one from
> > another.
> 
> While from my understanding Xen uses qemu's hardware emulation for it's VT
> support, this is not really true otherwise.
> 
> The devices emulated by qemu and bochs are quite similar, but the code looks
> completely different (appears to be a ground-up rewrite).

IIRC bochs does it in C++. Which makes it rather impossible to share code 
:-(

Ciao,
Dscho





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