On 10/5/07, Gerald Thornberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gerald Thornberry wrote: > > > I've never used QEMU so I may be talking out my hat. Looking at the > > > docs for it yesterday I remember seeing something about the QEMU > > > accelerator. Is that an option here? > > > > > > "When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by > > > executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. A host driver > > > called the QEMU accelerator (also known as KQEMU) is needed in this > > > case. The virtualizer mode requires that both the host and guest > > > machine use x86 compatible processors." > > > > > I've been informed that I was talking out of my hat, as I suspected. > KQEMU (QEMU accelerator) is a Linux kernel module and, therefore, not > an option for the OpenBSD. I'll put my hat back on my head now. >
I'm curious: in principle, would it be possible to use lkm(4) in OpenBSD to get the same effect? Presumably it would mean a lot of porting, but is there something fundamentally different about BSD from Linux here? -Nick
