From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R8vU3-0003Yj-R1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:51:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 260C721C231; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1796421C0E9 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773F71B401C for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:50:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -5.358 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.358 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.241, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jZ1zOnaBmvNr for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:50:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5933A1B401A for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8vSZ-0001mU-6K for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:50:07 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:50:07 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:50:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Qemu dead? Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:45:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 50258946f9d97e82262afdb13e19af0c On 2011-09-28, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Grant Edwards > 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. Yes, I should have known that. I had forgotten that kqemu and qemu-kvm were two completely different things. >> 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. That's good to hear. I've used it extensively in the past for testing eCos (an embedded RTOS) software on a "PC motherboard" target. Glad to know it's still kicking. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Not SENSUOUS ... only at "FROLICSOME" ... and in gmail.com need of DENTAL WORK ... in PAIN!!!