Re: [gentoo-user] Is Qemu dead?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to use Qemu to do some test installs of Ubuntu
> server.  I've used Qemu successfully in the past, but it seems to have
> hit a dead end.  The "stable" version (0.11) of Qemu just plain
> doesn't work. There are constant segfaults and kernel panics in the
> guest environment.

Version 0.11 is more than two years old. I don't use stable Gentoo; is
a 2-year-old version of a frequently-updated package normal in stable,
or is the Qemu in Gentoo in need of some attention?

> I updated to the ~x86 version (0.14) -- while the guest OS installs
> and runs OK, kernel acceleration (kqemu module) is no longer
> supported, and without it Qemu is really slow.

I am not a Qemu user, but I seem to remember reading that the
preferred method for hardware virtualization/acceleration with Qemu
nowadays is KVM.

> For now I've switched to VirtualBox, but the console implementation in
> VirtualBox is nightmarishly slow. When I do -l looks like it's
> scrolling by at about 9600 baud.
>
> Is Qemu dead?  Or just dying?

The latest version (0.15) was released last month and the Qemu-dev
mailing list has a lot of activity (few dozen messages per day), so it
seems alive to me.