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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding support for MIPS64 as host
From: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
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To: Utkarsh Sopan <utkarsh.sopan@coe.dce.edu>
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Utkarsh Sopan <utkarsh.sopan@coe.dce.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to add support for MIPS 64 as Host machine as my academic
> project.

Note that some work has already been done for MIPS host
support.

> I am new to QEMU.
>
> Problem is I dont have a MIPS 64 machine to test on.
> Please suggest whether or not I can use a nested QEMU emulator to test the
> same.
> i.e. running my version on top of a simulated MIPS64 machine.
>
> Is it possible to do so?

I was able to run on an x86_64 host, an ARM-hosted QEMU simulating
x86.  That was for Linux user mode.  I can't say if that would work for
other targets or for system simulation.


Laurent