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Whats this about KQemu being proprietary? I thought Qemu is Open Source?

April 26, 2017kqemu open source proprietary QEMU

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Whats this about KQemu being proprietary? I thought Qemu is Open Source?

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• A: Qemu itself is open source (as a matter of fact, libqemu which contains most of the work is LGPL, other parts are GPL I think). KQemu (the Qemu Accelerator Module, don’t confuse it with the Qemu GUI called KQemu 🙂 is an addition which is (license-wise) not connected to Qemu, although it’s written by Qemu’s initial developer – Fabrice Bellard. You can use Qemu perfectly well without KQemu and thus have a completely open source program, but KQemu will improve speed. More info on KQemu can be found at [14].