[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu ELF Loader Kernel integration

[mirak <mirak.spam@wanadoo.fr>]

Valtteri Rahkonen wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, PhilippGühring wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to integrate qemu(-ppc) into the Linux kernel, so that 
>> when a
>> program tries to start a Linux-ELF-ppc executable, that qemu is being 
>> used to
>> start it normally?
> 
> 
> Yes, see binfmt_misc (kernel support for misc binaries).
> 
>> It would be useful for embedded systems development for 
>> cross-compilation:
>> The resulting binaries could be tried natively on the development system.
>> If I would do it manually, I could start
>> qemu-ppc binary
>> But in some enviroments, the binary is started automatically by a 
>> third-party
>> product, therefore being able to launch the binary directly would be 
>> helpful.
> 
> 
> If you have a binfmt_misc compiled to your kernel and you have 
> registered qemu as a ppc interpreter then qemu will be started 
> automatically when executing the ppc binaries. You will need to register 
> qemu as your interprer in proc interface 
> (/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register).

Would this work for for exemple the flash player plugin or is it only 
for executables ?
I am interested in doing that the other way around, for i386 code on 
linux ppc.