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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 08/01/19 18:12, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
> 
> Ping.

It's already queued, but the pull request was pretty big and it had some
issues (quite an understatement).

Paolo

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