Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 21/08/2013 11:33, Stefan Weil ha scritto: > Am 21.08.2013 11:11, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: >> Still, I must say merging Xen has given us zero headaches. It's taken a >> while, but (at least from the QEMU project's POV) the wait has been >> worthwhile. >> >> I would hope that HAXN support would be

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-21 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 21.08.2013 11:11, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > Still, I must say merging Xen has given us zero headaches. It's taken a > while, but (at least from the QEMU project's POV) the wait has been > worthwhile. > > I would hope that HAXN support would be almost as easy as adding > haxn-all.c and haxn-stub.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 21/08/2013 11:08, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:12:21PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 20 August 2013 11:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> I guess "patches are welcome"---if they are of good quality, why not. >> >> Well, sort of. Given the fairly minimal level of suppor

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-21 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:12:21PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 20 August 2013 11:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > I guess "patches are welcome"---if they are of good quality, why not. > > Well, sort of. Given the fairly minimal level of support we currently > have for OSX (ie Andreas and I test

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-20 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:17:15PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote: > Would it be a good plan to merge HAXM support in latest QEMU > (the Android QEMU is based on a rather old version)? It only > supports Intel based hosts, is restricted to 32 bit guests (?) > and free, but not open source. I think the a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-20 Thread Peter Maydell
On 20 August 2013 11:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I guess "patches are welcome"---if they are of good quality, why not. Well, sort of. Given the fairly minimal level of support we currently have for OSX (ie Andreas and I test it a bit and fix egregious breakage), I'd prefer it if patches for signif

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 19/08/2013 22:17, Stefan Weil ha scritto: > Hello, > > is anybody working on KVM or something equivalent for Windows and Mac OS X? > > I recently noticed that the QEMU based Android emulator uses KVM for Linux > and HAXM, an Intel hypervisor, for Windows and Mac OS X. > > Would it be a good p

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Hardware acceleration for Windows and OS X?

2013-08-19 Thread Stefan Weil
Hello, is anybody working on KVM or something equivalent for Windows and Mac OS X? I recently noticed that the QEMU based Android emulator uses KVM for Linux and HAXM, an Intel hypervisor, for Windows and Mac OS X. Would it be a good plan to merge HAXM support in latest QEMU (the Android QEMU is