From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:38:02 +0100 Message-ID: <200709042138.03999.paul@codesourcery.com> References: <1aa37d910709020650v7c491985r761886db64435ac0@mail.gmail.com> <200709042104.59276.paul@codesourcery.com> <1188937280.29530.41.camel@basalt> 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: Hollis Blanchard Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1188937280.29530.41.camel@basalt> Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/