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FrodeSolheim · 15 February 2015, 00:09

There is no option in qemu-uae to enable KVM. QEMU-UAE != QEMU. In fact, QEMU-UAE just uses the PPC CPU emulation subsystem from QEMU. In order to make that work, it also initializes a few other QEMU subsystems.

But there is no option parsing (or similar), and the QEMU initialization isn't run. Instead, QEMU-UAE initializes subsystems directly.

So what is needed to get KVM enabled is to add code to QEMU-UAE to configure/enable KVM acceleration for the CPU emulation. This is why I said that a programmer was needed

accel.c:configure_accelerator looks like a good starting point...

15 February 2015, 00:09	#11
FrodeSolheim FS-UAE Developer Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Førde, Norway Age: 43 Posts: 4,043	There is no option in qemu-uae to enable KVM. QEMU-UAE != QEMU. In fact, QEMU-UAE just uses the PPC CPU emulation subsystem from QEMU. In order to make that work, it also initializes a few other QEMU subsystems. But there is no option parsing (or similar), and the QEMU initialization isn't run. Instead, QEMU-UAE initializes subsystems directly. So what is needed to get KVM enabled is to add code to QEMU-UAE to configure/enable KVM acceleration for the CPU emulation. This is why I said that a programmer was needed accel.c:configure_accelerator looks like a good starting point...