Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

[Tim Walker <tim@astolat-it.co.uk>]

Thanks for the replies.

I thought the Live CD was a bad idea until I realised it can still be 
booted under QEMU for non x86 users (Live CDs can be created for other 
platforms - have to pick one otherwise it'd be a nightmare). The 
tradeoff would be speed for x86 users vs ease of image maintenance and 
build environment precision (host processor). There is an appealing 
match between the desired uniformity of build environment and QEMU's aim 
to uniformly emulate different platforms regardless of host. It could 
also be a good test of QEMU itself in the same way GCC self compiles.

Cross compile to Windows from Linux is an unknown quantity to me - has 
anyone tried it yet with QEMU?

Depending on how it's used this could either be a two edged sword or a 
virtuous circle - headlines of "Convenient Build Environment demands 
massive investment of time to keep functional" or "Convenient Build 
Environment helps find QEMU inconsistencies and vice versa". Something 
like that.

Cheers,

Tim