On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:14 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've been using QEMU on, nearly, a daily basis for the last few months. Last I checked, I believe they're on track for a v1.0 release in November or December. I, honestly, haven't had many problems with unexpected segfaults on either Gentoo or Ubuntu, so I can't give any advice for that. As for the speed issue, have you tried building KVM into the kernel or at least as a mod?

- Matt