QEMU Accelerator goes open source
Posted by Fraser Campbell Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:39:00 GMT
Today a new version of the QEMU accelerator was released. There are some new features but the most noticeable change is that the module is now open source (GPL version 2). See announcement on the QEMU News page.
This move is not too surprising considering that there are now so many open source virtualization solutions for Linux. Fabrice has done a great favour to so many projects – Win4lin, KVM, Virtualbox and Xen all use QEMU in some form – let’s hope he can continue to hack on QEMU and be rewarded for it.
Besides the license change another noteable feature of the updated code is full x86_64 virtualization support.
With the relatively high performance CPU emulation provided by KQEMU I wonder if we might not see Xen patched eventually to provide full virtualization support without VT extensions?
