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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: Mauricio Galindo <up.mauricio.g@gmail.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: QEMU user mode execve
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 13:41:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrSNmnsW4YDRV3GYD9FCv+kjmB_Wos44ieiUQFGwNdk6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191003193255.GJ17916@kitsune.suse.cz>

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On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:36 PM Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 10:48:46AM -0700, Mauricio Galindo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running QEMU in user mode and I'm running into issues when trying
> > to exec binaries within the emulated process given that binaries are
> > expected to run in the native architecture. Would it be useful to have
> > an option to rewrite execve(/bin/some_binary, ...) to
> > execve(qemu-$arch-static, [/bin/some_binary, ...], ...)?
> >
>
> This is handled in kernel by binfmt-misc.
>
> Debian has nice packaging for the required configuration. They use it to
> create non-native installation images.
>

FreeBSD also uses bsd-user (admittedly a much changed one from what's
upstream[*]) to build non-native packages. It uses the same binfmt stuff in
a chroot.

Warner

[*] I've rebased our work forward up through 3.1 release and hope to have
it rebased through the top of the tree shortly and have it ready for
upstreaming soon.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-03 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-03 17:48 QEMU user mode execve Mauricio Galindo
2019-10-03 19:32 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-10-03 19:41   ` Warner Losh [this message]
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2019-10-03 16:12 Mauricio Galindo

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