Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Cutting a new QEMU release

[Andreas Färber]

Am 05.02.2009 um 18:51 schrieb Ben Taylor:

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Paul Brook <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > In practice Fabice is pretty much the only person who's ever done  
> > significant
> > work on kqemu (except maybe some fairly minor host OS porting  
> > bits). There's
> > never been a public source repository, so you get to use whatever  
> > random
> > tarballs Fabrice leaves lying around. If those don't work, noone  
> > really
> > cares.
>
> I've maintained tarballs for both 1.4.0 and 1.3.0 at the qemu project
> on OpenSolaris.org, and just realized that I never put into the SVN  
> repo
> the mods I made to the 1.4.0 code.  I had tested it with Solaris SXCE
> and Ubuntu 08.04.  If anyone shows some interest in testing, I'll  
> import
> the 1.4.0 into the SVN repo.  I believe that I picked up the minor
> patches that were posted to the list to fix compilations on linux
> with some various kernels.

I have happily used kqemu 1.4 on OpenSolaris for several months  
without problems, running Linux in sparc-softmmu and Haiku/BeOS in  
i386-softmmu.

I did have to tweak the Makefile a little for kqemu to link on  
OpenSolaris/amd64, I believe. Possibly by replacing ld with path/to/ 
amd64/ld.

There has been no rumor of any KVM port to Solaris. Linux kernel  
integration cannot be the only criteria.
It used to work in early December - could we set up a Git repo for  
Fabrice's official tarball? Then we could apply the OpenSolaris.org  
changes on a branch and play with our own Git forks to keep it working  
as long as there is no alternative. Asking for maintainers of  
unversioned software seems doomed to fail.

Andreas