Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[Blue Swirl]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
>  On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but
>> performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with
>> alternatives that use proprietary kernel modules. Someone should
>> recreate kqemu by using KVM compatible interfaces.
>
> If someone is really willing to invest the effort to do that cleanly, I am
> willing to merge it into kvm.  That would allow reuse of the mmu and some
> other logic that got a lot of effort in kvm.
>
> However, I doubt it is worth the effort, if anyone is interested in
> performance then they'd get a cpu that supports virtualization.
>
> That leaves non-Linux.  Can qemu really compete there for x86-on-x86?  I
> doubt it.

Someone could also make a KVM compatible module for non-Linux hosts
with virtualization capable CPUs. Wouldn't that solve most performance
problems?