Well, Google rightfully said that GCE does not need most QEMU features, so they have made a simplified version. Is is sad they did not release it.
On the other hand, there are people who need QEMU features: we have a QEMU-based test script for boot images which actually uses a few more exotic features to simulate the target environment.
sphix
The Google version is supposedly coupled heavily to their infrastructure and therefore would give little benefit to opensource without also open sourcing a large portion of their infrastructure.
kuschku
> without also open sourcing a large portion of their infrastructure.
Well, that’d not necessarily be bad for the dev community.
On the other hand, there are people who need QEMU features: we have a QEMU-based test script for boot images which actually uses a few more exotic features to simulate the target environment.