Re: [gentoo-user] Is Qemu dead?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:14 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
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>

I don't think it's dead at all. I see those guys interacting with the
KVM developers. I've never used Qemu but I suspect that the kqemu
stuff you're looking for is now what they're doing with KVM which
seems to be a pretty lively project. Qemu is not at 0.15 so it looks
like portage is a bit behind I guess.

HTH,
Mark