[fedora-virt] qemu user emulation test package, and is GUEST_BASE broken?

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Tue Apr 14 07:34:27 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:51 +0100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> >  - We don't see "user emulation mode" as being very important - I'd
> >    really be very surprised if many people use it
> 
> You must have data on the size of the set of machines with hardware
> assisted virtualisation by now.

"user emulation mode" is where qemu is emulates linux's system call
interface.

You're confusing that with qemu-system-x86 (non hardware assisted x86
machine emulation) vs. qemu-kvm (hardware assisted x86 machine
emulation).

Cheers,
Mark.




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