From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:21:20 -0500 Message-ID: <1188937280.29530.41.camel@basalt> References: <1aa37d910709020650v7c491985r761886db64435ac0@mail.gmail.com> <1188852253.10151.3.camel@squirrel> <200709042104.59276.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: Hollis Blanchard Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , kvm-ppc-devel , qemu-devel-qX2TKyscuCcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org To: Paul Brook Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200709042104.59276.paul-qD8j1LwMmJjtCj0u4l0SBw@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:04 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > This could be very valuable when thinking about running qemu *on* embedded > > systems with constrained memory and processing power, which is exactly what > > the KVM for embedded PowerPC project is considering. In that scenario, > > being able to strip out all unnecessary functionality (especially > > including devices known to be irrelevant) becomes very important. > > If you care about memory overhead the last thing you want is to be loading > loads of bitty little shared libraries. You want to build a single binary > with just the features you need. Hmm, that's a good point. Is that something you think can reasonably be accomplished with qemu today? -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/