On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:43:34AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Otto Rey wrote: > >- Is somebody working on Virtualization (KVM + QEMU) Performance? > > Maybe Upstream? Some time ago kqemu (qemu accelerator) was released > > under GPL 2 license. Any plans to include in fedora? Or it is > > already included/merged under qemu name? > > I can't find anything about kqemu & its status w.r.t. the upstream Linux > kernel. It isn't upstream & not built as part of the QEMU rpms in Fedora. If you compile / install it from an alternative source, libvirt/virt-manager will detect it & make use of kqemu if you don't have KVM available > KVM is in the upstream & Fedora kernels, and uses QEMU code to do device > emulation. Of course, that requires that your hardware supports > virtualization, but that will become increasingly common in the next > year or two. For performance issues with KVM you should ask upstream > (eg. on kvm-devel mailing list, > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel). > > >- It is posible to include VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition > > - GPL v2) in Fedora repo's? Any problem with Legal Stuff? > > VirtualBox is based on QEMU, right? Can you tell us what features it > has that makes it distinctive? (I mean in the free version, not > interested in proprietary features). It merely ues QEMU as its device model. Its pretty similar in concept to VMWare Workstation from what I can see. It tries to provide a self contained easy to use full virtualized solution. It dosn't need any special hardware support, but does require custom kernel modules. > There's a project to abstract away the differences between > virtualisation technologies so that, for example, the same command line > and graphical tools can be used to manage Xen, QEMU, KVM (so far, others > coming later). It be desirable to support VirtualBox in libvirt at some point if its popularity increases / or if there is already demand. It should fit in with libvirt concepts pretty well based on the cursory examination I've done of its capabilities. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
