From: Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Random thought about qemu-user and Windows
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:18:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320201844.GA863@miranda.arrow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319235015.GB12725@shareable.org>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:50:15PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Hmm... I wonder how much would be required to emulate just the
> Windows system calls (used by normal applications)? I.e. the same way
> qemu-user emulates the Linux and BSD system calls used by normal apps.
>
> WINE does this, of course, but WINE is much bigger than that - it
> replaces all the Windows userspace libraries. That's much bigger than
> just kernel behaviour. I wonder how big the part needed just for
> Windows system calls would be.
Hmm, at some point in the future, I suppose it's possible that there
could be a demand for something like FX!32 (which let you run i386 apps
on NT for DEC Alpha)... x86 seems to be here to stay, though...
For most users, I suppose qemu+wine would (in theory) be want they want,
although perhaps it'd be possible to run some code (e.g. wineserver?)
directly on the host CPU, without any translation.
--
Stuart Brady
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-17 17:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Syncing documentation vs. -help vs. qemu_options table v3 Blue Swirl
2009-03-17 23:08 ` Paul Brook
2009-03-18 6:51 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-18 10:15 ` Paul Brook
2009-03-18 10:18 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-19 23:50 ` [Qemu-devel] Random thought about qemu-user and Windows Jamie Lokier
2009-03-19 23:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 20:18 ` Stuart Brady [this message]
2009-03-21 9:13 ` Andreas Färber
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