[Slackbuilds-users] qemu-legacy

[David Woodfall]

On (18/11/13 10:32), King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> put forth the proposition:
>On 11/17/2013 10:41 PM, David Woodfall wrote:
>> I'm going to drop qemu-legacy. If anyone wants to take it on they are
>> more than welcome. I did make a patch which fixes the siginfo/info
>> struct error which I've attached.
>>
>> Without kqemu it is a little pointless to run this on old hardware
>> though and I couldn't get kqemu to compile.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
>I vote we drop qemu-legacy/kqemu as they are not longer maintained.
>These are very outdated and have either been deprecated or rolled into
>newer upstream code.  From wiki.qmu.org:
>
>1.  qemu-0.11+ has no support for kqemu, use kvm
>2.  kvm has merged with qemu-1.3+ and kernels now include
>    kvm/kvm-inel/kvm-amd modules.
>3.  kqemu is for kernel 2.4, 2.6 hosts
>
>Also, current qemu releases can run on older machines that do not
>support harware virtualization, _sort-of_ as-is, as long as you can boot
>a modern kernel.  I've done this on an old P4-266GHz, but not on my yet
>old P3-900MHz, and it is SLOW compared to my old Athlon64 X2. These
>days, I see no compelling reason, given how cheap modern hardware is, to
>running on these old CPUs  - heck, even for me, and I rarely throw
>anything out! :-)
>
>Just my 2 cents.
>
>-Ed

Yeah I don't see any reason to keep it to be honest. Not only that but
kqemu doesn't seem to compile on new kernels (at least it didn't for
me) and I think it was really suited to 2.6.x.

D.