On 10/23/2013 2:54 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
On 10/23/2013 02:37 PM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
Quite. We have this functionality already and it's as simple as: apt-get install qemu-system-x86
Not sure if debian has packaged the statically-linked version whch lets you run random foreign binaries in chroots, but that's a small matter.
Do you mean qemu-user-x86? That lacks futex() implementation so wouldn't run anything more or less interesting... But yep, fixing that would be a good task for someone young and ambitious to learn to hack ;-).
$ > ./fix-exclusive-for-inclusive good task for _anyone_ ambitious to learn to hack.
I'm not ambitious hardly at all, and I don't really like Debian that much.
Plus, I can't imagine that doing the emulation entirely in software is beneficial performance-wise vs. what I'm suggesting. It's *easier* but I don't think it's *better*. (I'm open minded tho. You're the experts, I'm not.)