On 27 June 2018 at 09:52, Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> > Is QEMU still useful on 32-bit hosts? Honest question! >> >> I guess it depends on what 32-bit hosts you consider. If you look at only >> x86 vs. x86_64 then probably x86 is not that important any more but for some >> embedded systems/SoCs 32bit might still be common and QEMU useful for those >> (also as host not only emulated).
I would generally agree with this. For x86 32-bit is probably droppable, but for non-x86 the situation is much less clear. > Well. I've used kvm with an 32bit arm soc (cubietruck). It's very > slow. And all the arm architecture improvements to support kvm better > are for aarch64 only. Cubietruck (a Cortex-A7) is a pretty slow 32-bit Arm core. Ask again in a couple of years :-) thanks -- PMM
