On Thursday 31 December 2009, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > >> Since VirtualBox userland is similar to Qemu, it should be possible to > >> port it. After all, VirtIO was ported from Qemu over here. > > > > Sorry, but this is wrong. It is possible to port drivers/devices from > > Qemu to VirtualBox but the VirtIO stuff was definitely _not_ ported from > > Qemu but written from scratch. > > hmm... but why reinvent the wheel ? licensing ?
Because sometimes rewriting is easier and fits our needs better. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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