Re: [RFC] QEMU KVM target

[Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>]

Jun Koi wrote:
> Howdy Anthony,
>
>> Here's a tiny patch that adds a i386-kvm target.  The main difference
>> between the i386-kvm and i386-softmmu target is that the -kvm target
>> does not have any of the dyngen infrastructure.  This means that it will
>> build with gcc-4.  I know you can do --cc=gcc to use gcc-4 but quite a
>> few versions of gcc-4 have trouble with compiling dyngen.
>
> I understand that your approach is to remove the "binary translation"
> part of the vanilla qemu, because we dont need it. We only need the
> device emulation code of qemu for kvm. Do I understand correctly?

Yup.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> If so, we do not need to depend on gcc3 tricks anymore. Removing the
> dependent on gcc3 is really an important achievement.
>
> Thanks,
> Jun
>


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