[Qemu-devel] I am attempting to port Qemu to Mac OS X.

[Qemu-devel] I am attempting to port Qemu to Mac OS X.

[qemu]

I have been lurking around this mailing list (via the online web view) and
decided to post here. I have decided to attempt to try to make Qemu at
least compile on the Darwin kernel.

So far I have a few files successfully compiling, but I am still a LONG
way from being there. Of course, the dyngen app is intended to read ELF
binaries, and I have almost no understanding of Mach-O binaries at all.

People can check the status of this little (potentially futile) project,
as well as download a tarball of what I have so far at:
http://www.raylucke.com/20010926/software/qemu/

Regards,

Ray

[Qemu-devel] Mac OS X and QEMU "roadmap"

[Fabrice Bellard]

qemu@raylucke.com wrote:
> I have been lurking around this mailing list (via the online web view) and
> decided to post here. I have decided to attempt to try to make Qemu at
> least compile on the Darwin kernel.
> 
> So far I have a few files successfully compiling, but I am still a LONG
> way from being there. Of course, the dyngen app is intended to read ELF
> binaries, and I have almost no understanding of Mach-O binaries at all.
> 
> People can check the status of this little (potentially futile) project,
> as well as download a tarball of what I have so far at:
> http://www.raylucke.com/20010926/software/qemu/

OK. I will try to look at that after the next release. On my TODO list I 
have 3 (or 4) items left:

- Finish full soft MMU mode (almost there, it allows to launch unpatched 
guest OSes and it eases QEMU portability on non Linux host OSes).

- (maybe, because it is more complicated) add a physical TB cache, so 
that QEMU does not flush translated code when the guest OS switches tasks.

- add builtin user mode tests for ARM and SPARC targets (I need to 
compile tests/linuxtest.c for those archs).

- add test "reference" images for Linux, NetBSD and FreeDOS (if someone 
wants to help on that topic...).

Fabrice.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac OS X and QEMU "roadmap"

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> - Finish full soft MMU mode (almost there, it allows to launch unpatched 
> guest OSes and it eases QEMU portability on non Linux host OSes).
> 
> - (maybe, because it is more complicated) add a physical TB cache, so 
> that QEMU does not flush translated code when the guest OS switches tasks.
> 
> - add builtin user mode tests for ARM and SPARC targets (I need to 
> compile tests/linuxtest.c for those archs).
> 
> - add test "reference" images for Linux, NetBSD and FreeDOS (if someone 
> wants to help on that topic...).

HI Fabrice !

What's currently preventing "vl" (with our without softmmu) to work
on a ppc host ? I have the x86 "vl" working within qemu but that's
a bit nasty stacking 2 levels of emulation ;)

Ben.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac OS X and QEMU "roadmap"

[Rusty Russell]

In message <3F81EC35.8040808@free.fr> you write:
> OK. I will try to look at that after the next release. On my TODO list I 
> have 3 (or 4) items left:

You missed "primitive SMP support".  With the hotplug CPU code I'm
working on, it'd be a huge boon...

Just don't want you to get bored 8)
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac OS X and QEMU "roadmap"

[Fabrice Bellard]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <3F81EC35.8040808@free.fr> you write:
> 
>>OK. I will try to look at that after the next release. On my TODO list I 
>>have 3 (or 4) items left:
> 
> 
> You missed "primitive SMP support".  With the hotplug CPU code I'm
> working on, it'd be a huge boon...
> 
> Just don't want you to get bored 8)

I think SMP will not be so complicated to add provided QEMU schedules 
itself each virtual CPU... I must first find some time to finish the 
current release !

Fabrice.