[Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-devel Digest, Vol 15, Issue 37 2. - User mode no longer a priority

["Wim Vanderbauwhede" <wim@motherearth.org>]

> Note that user-mode QEMU is no longer my priority, so I won't support it 
> directly.
Please let met get this clear: does this mean that people who want to use qemu
to run individual apps (like most of us on PPC) rather than boot a full system
are on their own now?
Will support for user-mode qemu continue or will qemu eventually become a
full-system emulator only? 
I think user-mode operation is just the greatest feature of qemu! (And I don't
have the disk space left for a full system install)

> Some motivated people could set up a minimal set of libraries 
> and programs (wine, etc...) and an installer so that anyone interested 
> can install user QEMU easily.
It's not that easy. What works one one distro, segfaults on another. 
I think we should really understand _why_ it segfaults.
Therefor let me rephrase a previous question: Should qemu and the x86
binaries/libraries it runs in user mode be compiled with the same version of
gcc? Or is this irrelevant?

Cheers,

Wim

> 
> Fabrice.

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