On 22.11.2018 08:24, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 16.11.2018 13:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 14/11/18 14:04, Alexandro Sanchez Bach wrote:
>>> Intel HAXM supports now 32-bit and 64-bit Linux hosts. This patch includes
>>> the corresponding userland changes.
>>>
>>> Since the Darwin userland backend is POSIX-compliant, the hax-darwin.{c,h}
>>> files have been renamed to hax-posix.{c,h}. This prefix is consistent with
>>> the naming used in the rest of QEMU.
>>
>> What's the advantage of HAXM when Linux hosts can just run KVM?  I guess
>> avoiding bitrot?
>>
>> Paolo
>>
> 
> This patch is also useful for NetBSD, even if it's not a Linux host.
> There is a driver in progress again (thanks to the newly added Linux
> port, it's now much easier to get done).
> 
> I recommend to merge this patch.
> 

For the record, I've a functional version of HAXM for NetBSD as host.
Once you will merge this patch, I will submit another one to configure
to enable haxm for NetBSD.

I need to keep the patch by Alexandro in a local copy of qemu.