Could make install do a "qemu-system-x86" and then symlink the "qemu" name to whatever the host platform happens to be? (So if you build qemu on x86-64 then qemu points to "qemu-system-x86_64"? Or if you build the sucker on a PPC system...)
The relevant code seems to be is in Makefile.target, line 50 or so: # system emulator name ifdef CONFIG_SOFTMMU ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH), i386) QEMU_SYSTEM=qemu$(EXESUF) else QEMU_SYSTEM=qemu-system-$(TARGET_ARCH2)$(EXESUF) endif else QEMU_SYSTEM=qemu-fast endif And I have no idea what "qemu-fast" is so I'm keeping my hands off. (Something to do with kqemu?) I previously thought it was special casing whatever the host platform is, but I see it's currently special casing i386 specifically. Rob P.S. I think the new link to be called "qemu-system-x86" rather than "qemu-system-i386" since i386 is a specific model of x86 processor and we haven't got qemu-system-armv4 and qemu-system-armv5, although if somebody wanted to make a way to specify that I'd be pretty happy. (Periodically the question comes up "how do I do a 586 build" and although it's easy enough to cross-compile for that, it's hard to come up with a test environment without plugging in actual hardware. "It runs on my laptop" is no guarantee, my laptop's a Pentium M...) However, I realize there's currently a "qemu-i386" in user emulation... -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel