On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been trying to use Qemu to do some test installs of Ubuntu > server. I've used Qemu successfully in the past, but it seems to have > hit a dead end. The "stable" version (0.11) of Qemu just plain > doesn't work. There are constant segfaults and kernel panics in the > guest environment.
Version 0.11 is more than two years old. I don't use stable Gentoo; is a 2-year-old version of a frequently-updated package normal in stable, or is the Qemu in Gentoo in need of some attention? > I updated to the ~x86 version (0.14) -- while the guest OS installs > and runs OK, kernel acceleration (kqemu module) is no longer > supported, and without it Qemu is really slow. I am not a Qemu user, but I seem to remember reading that the preferred method for hardware virtualization/acceleration with Qemu nowadays is KVM. > For now I've switched to VirtualBox, but the console implementation in > VirtualBox is nightmarishly slow. When I do -l looks like it's > scrolling by at about 9600 baud. > > Is Qemu dead? Or just dying? The latest version (0.15) was released last month and the Qemu-dev mailing list has a lot of activity (few dozen messages per day), so it seems alive to me.
