"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

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