"Re: [sage-support] Why does sage not use Qemu?" The answer to this question is: (1) Nobody has yet made a Sage QEMU machine and posted it so we could try it out and test it. I really wish somebody would do so. (2) Depending on the results of (1), nobody has volunteered to maintain a QEMU release of Sage, which is trivial to install on Windows. (3) What are the MS Windows <--> QEMU networking issues like? In Vmware they mostly "just work"; with coLinux (using TAP), networking was an exercise in misery. Setting up a virtual network between the host and guest is critical for Sage to work.
On Dec 25, 2007 9:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. > > When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made > for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your > own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good > performances. > > When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by > executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. A host driver > called the QEMU accelerator (also known as KQEMU) is needed in this > case. The virtualizer mode requires that both the host and guest > machine use x86 compatible processors. > > The following points clarify the QEMU licenses: > > * QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License > * Parts of QEMU have specific licenses which are compatible with > the GNU General Public License. Hence each source file contains its > own licensing information. > > In particular, the QEMU virtual CPU core library (libqemu.a) is > released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Many hardware > device emulation sources are released under the BSD license. > * The QEMU Accelerator driver is released under the GNU General > Public License version 2. > * QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---