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

[Andreas Färber]

Am 15.02.2009 um 16:44 schrieb Jamie Lokier:

> Andreas Färber wrote:
> > There has been no rumor of any KVM port to Solaris. Linux kernel
> > integration cannot be the only criteria.
>
> Does Solaris not have their own equivalent to KVM, for running VMs?

Sun has xVM (based on Xen) with virt-manager UI. But it didn't run,  
e.g., Haiku and doesn't help with non-native (sparc-/ppc-softmmu)  
emulation either.
I'm not looking for a virtualization technology on Solaris but for a  
platform suited for my uses of QEMU emulation (and that box was pretty  
fast :).

However unsupported, QEMU+kqemu on OpenSolaris/amd64 is much faster  
than unaccelerated QEMU on OSX/ppc!

And trying to set up any KVM guest in Fedora was a pain. Haven't tried  
the new KVM integration in QEMU trunk yet. Maybe kqemu really has a  
bad kernel interface, but it's simple to set up and fits the needs of  
my use cases:

- booting existing hard disk images without one-time booting from an  
ISO image first (virt-manager seems to require the latter)
- storing the image files anywhere I like, including my home dir  
(SELinux messes with that on Fedora 10)
- starting the VM from an unpriviledged user, preferably from a shell  
script

Andreas