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

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 25.11.2018 18:14, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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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