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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hax: Support for Linux hosts


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hax: Support for Linux hosts
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:14:53 +0100
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On 25/11/18 00:50, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 22.11.2018 08:24, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> On 16.11.2018 13:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 14/11/18 14:04, Alexandro Sanchez Bach wrote:
>>>> Intel HAXM supports now 32-bit and 64-bit Linux hosts. This patch includes
>>>> the corresponding userland changes.
>>>>
>>>> Since the Darwin userland backend is POSIX-compliant, the hax-darwin.{c,h}
>>>> files have been renamed to hax-posix.{c,h}. This prefix is consistent with
>>>> the naming used in the rest of QEMU.
>>>
>>> What's the advantage of HAXM when Linux hosts can just run KVM?  I guess
>>> avoiding bitrot?
>>>
>>> Paolo
>>>
>>
>> This patch is also useful for NetBSD, even if it's not a Linux host.
>> There is a driver in progress again (thanks to the newly added Linux
>> port, it's now much easier to get done).
>>
>> I recommend to merge this patch.
>>
> 
> For the record, I've a functional version of HAXM for NetBSD as host.
> Once you will merge this patch, I will submit another one to configure
> to enable haxm for NetBSD.
> 
> I need to keep the patch by Alexandro in a local copy of qemu.

Sure, it will be accepted for the release after 3.1.

Paolo


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