Re: [Qemu-devel] Running the user emulation

[C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>]

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Let me see if I understand this right -

qemu loads the a.out and begins to interpret the x86 instructions in the
a.out and when a system call happens, it makes the call the host system ....
is that right?



On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:

>  Am 11.08.2010 10:31, schrieb C K Kashyap:
>
> Hi,
> I've built qemu on my mac osx using this config -
> ./configure --prefix=/Users/ckk/local/ --target-list="i386-softmmu
> x86_64-softmmu" --enable-linux-user
>
> Now, I have a simple a.out built on linux - how can I run it using qemu on
> my mac box?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kashyap
>
>
> Hi Kashyap,
>
> you cannot run it in user mode emulation unless you replace Mac OS by Linux
> on your mac box. Linux user emulations requires a Linux host.
>
> If you have a Linux host, you would need --target-list=i386-linux-user.
>
> You can run your a.out if you run system emulation (e.g. i386-softmmu/qemu)
> and install Linux there, of course.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>



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Regards,
Kashyap

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