Re: [Qemu-devel] The QEMU Accelerator Module

[Darryl Dixon]

Hi Fabrice!

    Congratulations on the release of this very important code, it has been much anticipated!  :)  A quick question: if the module does not allow for redistribution, how does this affect the nightly source tarballs that I am used to grabbing from dad-answers - will these not be able to contain this module?  CVS access is very difficult for some (me in particular :) because of fascist firewalls :(

    Also, can I add my $0.02c and say that I too would be happy to donate a la blender to seeing this module put under the GPL.

Many regards, and thank you for your fantastic work
Darryl Dixon

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 00:31 +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just commited the first alpha release of the QEMU Accelerator Module 
> (aka KQEMU) in the CVS. It gives better performance for the "x86 on x86" 
> case by running most of the application code as is. It works only for a 
> Linux x86 host running a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels 
> and Windows 2000 have been runnning as guest OSes, but other OSes may 
> work as well. As with every alpha kernel driver testing, it is better to 
> backup your data before trying it.
>
> KQEMU is _not_ open source as the rest of QEMU. It is a proprietary 
> kernel module (read the LICENSE file) and will stay so until a gentle 
> company decides to subsidy the QEMU project.
>
> KQEMU usage is optional: you can disable it at compilation or run time, 
> so no one is forced to use it.
>
> Fabrice.
>
>
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