Xen devel - Apr 2006 - QEMU version in Xen

Hello,

   I see that under tools/ioemu the VERSION file says 0.6.1.
This is the version number of QEMU.

I wonder:
Version  0.8.0 of QEMU was out in December 2005.

See: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu.

Is there a reason for using an old version of QEMU ?
(which , if I am not wrong, was adjusted slightly to fit Xen needs)

Is there a real obstacle which exists in 0.8.0 (and does not exists in
0.6.1) which prevents using the newer QEMU 0.8.0 version ?

Regards,
IB

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On 17 Apr 2006, at 08:09, Ian Brown wrote:
>    I see that under tools/ioemu the VERSION file says 0.6.1.
> This is the version number of QEMU.
>
> I wonder:
> Version  0.8.0 of QEMU was out in December 2005.
>
> See: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu.
>
> Is there a reason for using an old version of QEMU ?
> (which , if I am not wrong, was adjusted slightly to fit Xen needs)
>
> Is there a real obstacle which exists in 0.8.0 (and does not exists in
> 0.6.1) which prevents using the newer QEMU 0.8.0 version ?
We want to upgrade to a newer version but it''s non-trivial since some 
of the source files have been significantly modified for Xen.

  -- Keir


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