http://linuxvirtualization.com/ en-us 40 Linux Virtualization comments <p>Today a new version of the <span class="caps">QEMU</span> 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 <a href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/index.html">QEMU News page</a>.</p> <p>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 &#8211; Win4lin, <span class="caps">KVM</span>, Virtualbox and Xen all use <span class="caps">QEMU</span> in some form &#8211; let&#8217;s hope he can continue to hack on <span class="caps">QEMU</span> and be rewarded for it.</p> <p>Besides the license change another noteable feature of the updated code is full x86_64 virtualization support.</p> <p>With the relatively high performance <span class="caps">CPU</span> emulation provided by <span class="caps">KQEMU I</span> wonder if we might not see Xen patched eventually to provide full virtualization support without VT extensions?</p> Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:39:00 EST <a href="/articles/2007/02/06/qemu-accelerator-goes-open-source">QEMU Accelerator goes open source</a> <a href="/articles/2007/02/06/qemu-accelerator-goes-open-source">QEMU Accelerator goes open source</a>