Kqemu is closed source, and different from the QVM86 project.

-Ober

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Juan RP wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:35:29 +0200
> From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
> To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
> Cc: tech-kern@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: another SoC project suggestion: kqemu kernel accelerator module
>     port
> 
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:53:59 +0200 (CEST)
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Qemu is a software emulator for an Intel CPU (and others).
>> For Linux and FreeBSD, an accelerator module is available that
>> speeds up the whole emulation process considerably.
>> Having that module available on NetBSD would be nice.
>>
>> I've had a quick look at the sources, and merging the FreeBSD and Linux
>> sources shouldn't be impossible - it boils down to writing a LKM that
>> allocates a bit of wired kernel memory and provides a character device
>> driver to issue various commands. The commands (ioctls) would be C stub
>> calls that then call into the actual accelerator module, which is only
>> available as binary module.
>>
>> Ideally, this would target the CVS version of qemu.
>>
>> A first step would probably be to make a qemu-devel package that uses the
>> CVS version of qemu, and then port the kqemu module.
>>
>> Getting the X86_64 version to go would be a possible addition.
>>
>> Work required for this: within SoC timeframe, including getting familiar
>> with the VM and device driver interfaces in NetBSD as well as getting
>> qemu-cvs to build.
>>
>> Possible mentors: someone with slight kernel clue (VM, device drivers),
>> ie. not me X-)
>
> wip/qemu-qvm86 contains the NetBSD port for the kqemu accelerator
> AFAIK.
>