QEMU 0.15 Brings Several New Features

[yogi_berra]

VirtualBox modules haven't been submitted upstream at all afaik. It isn't likely to get merged in as it is.

Why should they be submitted upstream? They work just fine as-is.

[kbios]

Does anyone in here happen to know if/how qemu or qemu-kvm can detect and verify the presence and proper functionality of an IOMMU on the AMD 890FX platform?

A far as I know, IOMMU is checked when you try to assign a PCI device, and an error message will be printed if it cannot be used.

[gilboa]

Yes, but those are _optional_, which is the point. If I do not need Sparc emu, I can disable it.

Given the fact that qemu is open source, if glib bothers you so much, you shouldn't find it difficult you role you own, glibc-less fork, no?
OSS, after all, is meritocracy and -not- a democracy...

Back to the subject at hand, I'm one Xen aware release of the nVidia binary driver away from realizing my plan to use a stable base OS as host (used for network services and work) running a number high performance guests (both Linux and Windows) with full 3D support.

- Gilboa

[colo]

Does anyone in here happen to know if/how qemu or qemu-kvm can detect and verify the presence and proper functionality of an IOMMU on the AMD 890FX platform?

[curaga]

In the grand scheme of things, GLib is a pretty trivial dependency. QEMU supports tons of "bloat" that only small minorities will ever use (e.g. SPARC emulation), because it can. It's the nature of the beast. We're talking about a project founded by a guy who also wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. If you want Bochs or Xen, you know where to find them.

Yes, but those are _optional_, which is the point. If I do not need Sparc emu, I can disable it.

[Ex-Cyber]

The commit mentioned two things, tests and threading in virtio-p9. Why do you believe all users should be penalized for a developer use case (tests), or a small minority (plan 9)?

In the grand scheme of things, GLib is a pretty trivial dependency. QEMU supports tons of "bloat" that only small minorities will ever use (e.g. SPARC emulation), because it can. It's the nature of the beast. We're talking about a project founded by a guy who also wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. If you want Bochs or Xen, you know where to find them.

[RahulSundaram]

The commit mentioned two things, tests and threading in virtio-p9. Why do you believe all users should be penalized for a developer use case (tests), or a small minority (plan 9)?

I trust QEMU developers to do their job since they have proven themselves over a number of years. I am sure they will accept patches if you want to help out though.

[curaga]

The commit mentioned two things, tests and threading in virtio-p9. Why do you believe all users should be penalized for a developer use case (tests), or a small minority (plan 9)?

[RahulSundaram]

Bloat.

You really should get off your high horse.

Reusing glib is the opposite of bloat. Rewriting each of the relevant functions would be much more bloat than reusing a well tested, mature and widely used library. I don't own a horse. I have a pony though :-)

[curaga]

Why?

Bloat.

If the objection was anything technical, I guess we will hear about the specific details instead of this response

You really should get off your high horse.