Could there be a "KVM" for OpenBSD? I have been wondering for a while if the
answer is an absolute no because it could never be trustworthy enough, not
likely to happen because of lack of interest, or somewhere in between.
Peter Ericson
On 04/05/2012, at 8:28 PM, Weldon Goree <
weldon@...> wrote:
> On 05/04/12 06:12, Jes wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I can't find kqemu between snapshots packages, ports, or even in 5.1
>> packages. I think I've read something about kqemu is deprecated in
>> newer versions of qemu (1.0.1) Is this correct? Because performance
>> without kqemu is horrible. Any solution?
>>
>>
>
> Yes, it was killed upstream since Linux now comes with its own hypervisor
(KVM).
>
> AFAIK OpenBSD currently does not have a working hypervisor since it also
can't be dom0 on xen until such time as xen stops randomly overwriting
register contents at unpredictable times.
>
> So, as of now, any virtualization will have to be of the plain qemu or bochs
variety. Sorry.
>
> Best,
> Weldon
