kqmeu module?

Ben Collins ben.collins at ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 16 19:19:13 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 19:22 +0100, Jean-Eric Cuendet (RPT) wrote:
> > please take care about kqemu, it doesn't work with amd64, and I
> > experienced some problems on my i386 intel as well.
> > kqemu is really experimental, I'd delay it till it's mature enough.
> 
> Is it useful at all now that kvm is in mainline and in Feisty?
> What's the configuration inn which kqemu is advantageous and that kvm is 
> not?

In the situation where the hardware doesn't support virtualization.
Kqemu is a kernel side vmmon, much like VMWare's vmmon kernel module.

kvm is meant to take advantage of CPU's that provide hw virtualization
(such as Intel's VMX).

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