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

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

[Wim Vanderbauwhede]

> 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.

-- 
If it's pointless, what's the point?
If there is a point to it, what's the point?
(Tibor Fischer, "The Thought Gang")

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

[Sander Nagtegaal]

Indeed Wim. User mode is the greatest things of QEMU for PPC users if it works 
correctly. Currently I'm only segfaulting................
Yellowdog Linux 4.0 will be out this month with all the update compiler stuff 
etc so I hope it fixes the problem. However.......I've been really trying 
ALOT and can't get it to work. Also the installation is quite some work and 
you should also get al those damn RPMS from the redhat site. Would be nice if 
that would just be a nice little zip file from the QEMU site. That would save 
people alot of hassle getting them.
I really think that QEMU with WINE will be big if it works correctly. WINE is 
really improving at the moment and constantly getting better.

Greetings,

Sander

Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 08:45, schreef Wim Vanderbauwhede:
> > 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.