KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 6, 2007 15:28 UTC (Tue) by orospakr (guest, #40684)
Parent article: KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

GPL, huh?

No doubt Mr. Bellard was starting to feel the squeeze from all the other virtualisation 'solutions'.

It was getting pretty obvious that no one was going to license the kqemu technology from him. There are already many other proprietary programs that do exactly the same thing (not to mention all the other Free programs like kvm and Xen, even if they do require the VT/Pacifica extensions to run unmodified operating systems).

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 6, 2007 16:43 UTC (Tue) by amando (guest, #36597) [Link] (3 responses)

``GPL, huh?
No doubt Mr. Bellard was starting to feel the squeeze from all the other virtualisation 'solutions'.''
This is not very nice.

I think it is great that qemu have become fully GPL.

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 6, 2007 16:55 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (guest, #31018) [Link] (2 responses)

This was indeed not a nice thing to say. What I would rather say is:
Fabrice, un grand merci.

Note that Fabrice has been quite a genius so far, so I expect a number of
other great stuff to come from him. Maybe he GPL'd kqemu so others can
take the project further while he is busy on his next idea(s)?

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 6, 2007 17:57 UTC (Tue) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link] (1 responses)

Absolutely.

Bellard is a hacker of the first order (look at qemu, ffmpeg, tcc). I hope the explosion of virtualization products that his work has helped bring about (I think at least virtualbox and kvm borrow from qemu) will bring him some financial rewards as well.

I sure hope he keeps on doing what he has been doing!

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 7, 2007 0:12 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

KVM is all Qemu userland.

KVM itself does not do anything that is Qemu-specific.. it can be used with any sort of VM environment you would like to port to use it...... but so far a hacked Qemu is all there is.

Xen uses Qemu stuff somewhat also for their stuff.

It's too bad that Kqemu has taken so long to become GPL'd. It's been around for a long time now, but it's better late then never and it is quite usefull for non-VT/SVM enabled machines.

Also hopefully the kernel hackers can look at the Kqemu code and figure out ways to fix some of KVM's existing limitations.

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 6, 2007 16:44 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Also, Fabrice is maintainer of a number of other GPLed programs so was probably waiting until (he could afford it | he'd obviously make no money off it) when it was proprietary. i.e., it was probably not a matter of `if' but `when'.

Welcome news, definitely!

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 6, 2007 17:31 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Plus of course kqemu or no, qemu on its own is astonishingly cool and has added vastly to what my machine can do (and to debugging as well, of course, in a sense it's like being able to freeze time for tricky bugs, always hard when running on a physical CPU ;)) )

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 7, 2007 4:25 UTC (Wed) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]

Yes - QEmu ( in all its variants - cross-arch JIT , kqemu , kvm etc. ) is a very important hacking tool. It's one of the areas I believe should get more attention due to its potential importance to Free software.

I also hope in the near future all QEmu's variants will undergo some kind of unification.

KQEMU 1.3.0pre10 released - under the GPL

Posted Feb 7, 2007 1:45 UTC (Wed) by rganesan (guest, #1182) [Link]

You know, that's quite uncharitable. QEMU is used in a lot of projects including VirtualBox and KVM. If the author has chosen to release a key piece of work under GPL, whatever the reasons, I for one welcome it and applaud it.