[Qemu-devel] Re: Killing KQEMU

[Chris Frey]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:26:27PM +0400, Anton D Kachalov wrote:
> I may suggest you to switch to VirtualBox / VirtualBox OSE that has more 
> features (comparable to VmWare) if you're interested to use QEMU just to 
> run some kind of OS.

"Just to run some kind of OS" is the task that the majority of virtualization
users are looking for.  It makes it sound like that's not the audience
that QEMU is trying to serve.

I'd give VirtualBox OSE a try, if it supported USB.  QEMU is the only
open virtualization system that reasonably supports old hardware and USB.
At least to my knowledge.

Without kqemu, that reasonable support for old hardware disappears, and USB
has only become useful recently.  USB under 0.9.x was pain incarnate.

- Chris