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Do you guys pronounce it Q-Emu (as in the letter Q then emu as in emulator) or kweemoo?
The same guy that started QEMU also started ffmpeg.. two very complex pieces of software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
While this is true, please don't let it overshadow the tremendous work (possibly even the bulk of it by now) by subsequent maintainers. In the ffmpeg case that involved fighting a well-resourced hostile fork over a period of years, in the Qemu case I believe it means at least 10 years of additional substantial feature development. I wonder what Bellard's overall hit rate across all those projects looks like in terms…
I like QEMU a lot but VirtualBox is my goto because the cli commands work fairly reliably and simply and I'm ashamed to say the simplicity of the UX is compatible with my laziness. For server workloads KVM/Qemu is great but imho, Vbox or Fusion are the best in my experience. Does anyone know if there are Qemu wrappers with a nice UI/UX? My current use cases aside, it's amazing the number of nice use cases Qemu is mad…
Maybe overkill depending on your use case but that's what I consider Proxmox[0] to be.
Since QEMU devs/maintainers are lurking, i just want to say thank you for a fantastic project. I work for a company (Datto) that backs up Windows/Linux machines, which can then later be run as VMs for disaster recovery. Our product heavily relies on QEMU, and would be significantly harder to implement and maintain without it (believe me, it was built around VBox in the past). Thank you!
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While this is true, please don't let it overshadow the tremendous work (possibly even the bulk of it by now) by subsequent maintainers. In the ffmpeg case that involved fighting a well-resourced hostile fork over a period of years, in the Qemu case I believe it means at least 10 years of additional substantial feature development. I wonder what Bellard's overall hit rate across all those projects looks like in terms…
What is a “hostile fork?”
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While this is true, please don't let it overshadow the tremendous work (possibly even the bulk of it by now) by subsequent maintainers. In the ffmpeg case that involved fighting a well-resourced hostile fork over a period of years, in the Qemu case I believe it means at least 10 years of additional substantial feature development. I wonder what Bellard's overall hit rate across all those projects looks like in terms…
I agree with you, but I also think it's pretty impressive that Fabrice has started multiple projects that many other people have devoted their entire careers to expanding/maintaining. Almost seems to challenge the common assertion that execution is more important than a great idea.
With -accel whpx you can even get pretty solid CPU acceleration. WHPX[1] is sort of like KVM for Windows, only takes a couple clicks and a reboot to enable, and ships on both Windows Home and Pro. Other than the heroes who did the actual work, we probably have Android to thank[2] for this situation.
If you're willing to get your hands a little dirty, QEMU is a fairly viable alternative to WSL or even Docker on Windows.
[0]: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/get-started...
[2]: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-accelerati...
Since QEMU devs/maintainers are lurking, i just want to say thank you for a fantastic project. I work for a company (Datto) that backs up Windows/Linux machines, which can then later be run as VMs for disaster recovery. Our product heavily relies on QEMU, and would be significantly harder to implement and maintain without it (believe me, it was built around VBox in the past). Thank you!
I like QEMU a lot but VirtualBox is my goto because the cli commands work fairly reliably and simply and I'm ashamed to say the simplicity of the UX is compatible with my laziness. For server workloads KVM/Qemu is great but imho, Vbox or Fusion are the best in my experience. Does anyone know if there are Qemu wrappers with a nice UI/UX? My current use cases aside, it's amazing the number of nice use cases Qemu is mad…
“Does anyone know if there are Qemu wrappers with a nice UI/UX?” What operating system are you on?
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Hmmm. From the home page: https://www.qemu.org/ Latest releases 7.0.0 Apr 19th 2022 6.2.0 Dec 14th 2021 6.1.1 Dec 23rd 2021 And the "full list of releases": https://download.qemu.org/ is not any better, I think that starting from 2018 the number means (roughly) the year: 3=2018 (or also early 2019) 4=2019 5=2020 6=2021 7=2022 but I can see no evidence of a 4 month fixed interval release.
As the person who tagged v7.0.0 yesterday, I do in fact know our release cadence :-) As bonzini says, .0.0 is April, .1.0 August and .2.0 December. The x.y.1 are stable-branch releases which happen slightly more irregularly.
So, to clarify:
x is year (counting from 2016=1) ? (OR first release of a year gets a major version bump)
IF last digit is 0 then y is to be decoded as:
0=April
1=August
2=December
OTHERWISE IF last digit is 1 the y may (or may not) be decoded as above.