Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 19/08/2013 22:17, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> Hello,
> 
> is anybody working on KVM or something equivalent for Windows and Mac OS X?
> 
> I recently noticed that the QEMU based Android emulator uses KVM for Linux
> and HAXM, an Intel hypervisor, for Windows and Mac OS X.
> 
> Would it be a good plan to merge HAXM support in latest QEMU
> (the Android QEMU is based on a rather old version)? It only
> supports Intel based hosts, is restricted to 32 bit guests (?)
> and free, but not open source.

Considering the level of openness in both Windows and Mac OS X, a
proprietary hypervisor would be the smallest of the problems for someone
using those OSes...

I guess "patches are welcome"---if they are of good quality, why not.
The community doesn't have that many kernel hackers for Windows and Mac
OS X.

Paolo