Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hax: Support for Linux hosts

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 1/8/19 7:27 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/01/19 18:12, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> On 25.11.2018 18:14, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 25/11/18 00:50, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>>> On 22.11.2018 08:24, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>>>> On 16.11.2018 13:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>>> On 14/11/18 14:04, Alexandro Sanchez Bach wrote:
>>>>>>> Intel HAXM supports now 32-bit and 64-bit Linux hosts. This patch 
>>>>>>> includes
>>>>>>> the corresponding userland changes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since the Darwin userland backend is POSIX-compliant, the 
>>>>>>> hax-darwin.{c,h}
>>>>>>> files have been renamed to hax-posix.{c,h}. This prefix is consistent 
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> the naming used in the rest of QEMU.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the advantage of HAXM when Linux hosts can just run KVM?  I guess
>>>>>> avoiding bitrot?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paolo
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch is also useful for NetBSD, even if it's not a Linux host.
>>>>> There is a driver in progress again (thanks to the newly added Linux
>>>>> port, it's now much easier to get done).
>>>>>
>>>>> I recommend to merge this patch.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For the record, I've a functional version of HAXM for NetBSD as host.
>>>> Once you will merge this patch, I will submit another one to configure
>>>> to enable haxm for NetBSD.
>>>>
>>>> I need to keep the patch by Alexandro in a local copy of qemu.
>>>
>>> Sure, it will be accepted for the release after 3.1.
>>>
>>> Paolo
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ping.
> 
> It's already queued, but the pull request was pretty big and it had some
> issues (quite an understatement).

Hopefully you queued Alexandro's v2 (which isn't named v2) with Alex
comments fixed, thanks!

Phil.

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