Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project)

[Paul Brook <paul-qD8j1LwMmJjtCj0u4l0SBw@public.gmane.org>]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 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?

It should be fairly easy.

Paul

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