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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.

Presumably, like most other packages, the .a's would be installed too
such that a static binary could be built.  If you were looking to build
a single-purposed process that didn't have all the features of QEMU,
then this would certainly help.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 
> Paul
> 
>