[Qemu-devel] Re: What can qemu do that vmware/virtual pc can't...article idea

2006-07-30 Thread Don Kitchen
I've heard that VMware has the ability to do delta (incremental) images but I've never found it. With Qemu it's easy to make a large (read-only) system image (burned to CD or DVD, for example) and have all disk writes go to a different smaller media (like the USB flash drive you booted from, which

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Jamie Lokier
Karlos . wrote: >"Open the code unless you have something to hide." was an advice, not >an order. Ok. Maybe English is not your first language. To a native English speaker, the sentence you wrote is very clearly written as an order. If you want to advise, a way to write is is: I t

Re: [Qemu-devel] Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Mark Williamson
> Well, have you donated? :) Is there a way to donate? Couldn't find anything on the main site. > Personally, I'd be willing to pay Fabrice for the Accelerator if it > were open source. But I don't pay for closed source software unless > it's unavoidable. But each is entitled to make their own

Re: [Qemu-devel] Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jonathan Kalbfeld wrote: > To be honest, I'd be willing to PAY Fabrice for QEMU. Well, have you donated? :) Personally, I'd be willing to pay Fabrice for the Accelerator if it were open source. But I don't pay for closed source software unless it's unavoidable. But each is entitled to make thei

Re: [Qemu-devel] Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Jamie Lokier
Karlos . wrote: >QEMU Accelerator license is not ethical. >Open the code unless you have something to hide. Well it's not ethical to force someone to work against their wishes either. And many would say it's not ethical to demand someone to license their own work in a way they don't agree

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] make sure disk writes actually hit disk

2006-07-30 Thread Jamie Lokier
Bill C. Riemers wrote: >How about compromising, and making the patch a run time option. >Presumably this is only a problem when the virtual machine is not >properly shutdown. For those ho want the extra security of knowing >the data will be written regardless of t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] make sure disk writes actually hit disk

2006-07-30 Thread Jamie Lokier
Rik van Riel wrote: > This may look like hair splitting, but so far I've lost a > (test) postgresql database to this 3 times already. Not getting > the guest application's data to disk when the application calls > fsync is a recipe for disaster. Exactly the same thing happens with real IDE disks

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread André Braga
On 7/30/06, Karlos . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I asked lot of times before my first email why its closed. Dont assume that i didnt it. Look, I'm subscribed to this list for more than two years now (since at least 18/July/2004), and I've never seen a SINGLE message from you. Fabrice already sa

Re: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Joseph Stewart
I am ethic and my ethic is: "All your base are belong to us", am this your ethic, too? On 7/30/06, Karlos . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I asked lot of times before my first email why its closed. Dont assume that i didnt it. "Open the code unless you have something to hide." was an advice, not an

[Qemu-devel] qemu arm.ld cpu-all.h disas.c dyngen.c dyngen.h...

2006-07-30 Thread Paul Brook
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Paul Brook 06/07/30 19:16:29 Modified files: . : arm.ld cpu-all.h disas.c dyngen.c dyngen.h elf.h Log message: Rewrite Arm host support. CVSWeb URLs: http://cvs.savanna

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Karlos .
I asked lot of times before my first email why its closed. Dont assume that i didnt it."Open the code unless you have something to hide." was an advice, not an order.Everybody has an ethic, me too. And in my ethic this behavior is not ethic, im sorry.Ricardo Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Ricardo Almeida
On 7/30/06, Karlos . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I dont use kqemu because i think its license is not ethical. You can do what you want. Nobody is forcing you to use kqemu. Its my opinion. Please dont call me troll if you dont like it. You're a troll, not because you don't use kqemu because y

RE: [Qemu-devel] Re: Accelerator feature

2006-07-30 Thread Karlos .
I dont use kqemu because i think its license is not ethical.Its my opinion. Please dont call me troll if you dont like it.Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Please don't feed the trolls :-) Best thing to do is just ignore messageslike this.Regards,Anthony LiguoriOn Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:1

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of TI OMAP board support?

2006-07-30 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 30/07/06, Paul Sokolovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello qemu-devel, I wonder, what's the state of TI OMAP patch, previously announced on the list by Andrzej Zaborowski http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-03/msg00125.html ? Is it considered for inclusion in the mainline

[Qemu-devel] State of TI OMAP board support?

2006-07-30 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello qemu-devel, I wonder, what's the state of TI OMAP patch, previously announced on the list by Andrzej Zaborowski http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-03/msg00125.html ? Is it considered for inclusion in the mainline? If not, what precludes that? -- Best regards, Paul