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

[Anthony Liguori]

Andreas Färber wrote:
> 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.

Set up a repository somewhere.  You don't need anyone's permission for that.

Savannah isn't a great place for hosting.  You can only have one git 
repo per project.  I'd suggest something like github or repo.or.cz.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Andreas