On 6/16/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:13:56PM +0100, Chris Brown wrote: > > > I've started playing around with virtualization at work and the first > thing > > I'd like to query is kqemu's lack of inclusion in the Fedora kernel. It > was > > GPL'd in February and although I realise Axel is packaging kmdl/kmods it > > would be good to know if this is being queued up for mainline. > > not afaik.. I've not heard of anyone working on it since its initial > opensource'ing, which seemed to be a reactionary thing in response to > kvm's gaining popularity. > > > If not then can it be backported for Fedora kernels. > > It was fairly big (but not really invasive fwir), but it's still a delta > that we'd perpetually have to carry vs upstream. Each patch adds a > burden towards rebasing, and with no clear path for this to get > upstream, it's questionable how long we'd have to carry it, so I'm > not too enthusiastic to be honest.
well but kqemu seems not to break that often I just recompile it after each kernel release and it just works. the code might be big but it does not depend on (fast) changing interfaces.
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