[Qemu-devel] Mac OS X and QEMU "roadmap"

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>]

qemu@raylucke.com wrote:
> I have been lurking around this mailing list (via the online web view) and
> decided to post here. I have decided to attempt to try to make Qemu at
> least compile on the Darwin kernel.
> 
> So far I have a few files successfully compiling, but I am still a LONG
> way from being there. Of course, the dyngen app is intended to read ELF
> binaries, and I have almost no understanding of Mach-O binaries at all.
> 
> People can check the status of this little (potentially futile) project,
> as well as download a tarball of what I have so far at:
> http://www.raylucke.com/20010926/software/qemu/

OK. I will try to look at that after the next release. On my TODO list I 
have 3 (or 4) items left:

- Finish full soft MMU mode (almost there, it allows to launch unpatched 
guest OSes and it eases QEMU portability on non Linux host OSes).

- (maybe, because it is more complicated) add a physical TB cache, so 
that QEMU does not flush translated code when the guest OS switches tasks.

- add builtin user mode tests for ARM and SPARC targets (I need to 
compile tests/linuxtest.c for those archs).

- add test "reference" images for Linux, NetBSD and FreeDOS (if someone 
wants to help on that topic...).

Fabrice.