On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >> >> Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but >> performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with >> alternatives that use proprietary kernel modules. Someone should >> recreate kqemu by using KVM compatible interfaces. > > If someone is really willing to invest the effort to do that cleanly, I am > willing to merge it into kvm. That would allow reuse of the mmu and some > other logic that got a lot of effort in kvm. > > However, I doubt it is worth the effort, if anyone is interested in > performance then they'd get a cpu that supports virtualization. > > That leaves non-Linux. Can qemu really compete there for x86-on-x86? I > doubt it.
Someone could also make a KVM compatible module for non-Linux hosts with virtualization capable CPUs. Wouldn't that solve most performance problems?
