From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqEvS-0007VZ-A8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:56:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqEvQ-0007V1-Dw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:56:17 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqEvQ-0007Uy-8m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:56:16 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqEvP-0004N3-CT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:56:16 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so41929ugd for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 13:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:56:13 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Using native libraries In-Reply-To: <200705211511.01631.luke@dashjr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705211511.01631.luke@dashjr.org> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 5/21/07, Luke -Jr wrote: > I'm sure someone's probably had a similar idea before, and it's probably not > practical for some reason I'm overlooking-- but is there a reason Qemu can't > dynamically translate library calls to use the native libraries instead of > requiring emulated libraries as well? That would be a totally different class of emulation, much more similar to the FreeBSD "linuxulator" than to what QEMU is intended to do. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos