Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

[Anthony Liguori]

Jim C. Brown wrote:

> > - If no, is it possible that one day qemu reaches the speed of vmware?
> >
> >    
>
> qemu itself? Nope.
>
> kqemu/qvm86 don't have this limitation though. Fabrice had said that he wants
> kqemu to be able to do total virtualization (both kernel and userland bits);
> basically all the translation code of qemu would be left unused but the hardware
> emulation would still be shared.
>  
I reckon this means taking advantage of VT and Pacifica when they're 
available so the kernel code can be safely run on bare metal.

FWIW, Xen is already using QEMU in this way.  It would be very neat to 
see this technique applied to a Type II VMM.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori