On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:08:30PM -0600, Arturo CV wrote: > Hello, > > Am new around here and am working with the QEMU in a project. > > I would like to ask if there is anyone that can let me know how to > compile or build the images to be used to run the QEMU from the source > code. I already got the source code from the wiki.qemu.org and I have > the version 1.0.1. Now I would like to build it from there to start > doing some test with my project. > > At the beginning I was working with the version 0.14.50 but it was > already build with all the executable and everything and am having > issues when I try to put the system into an Idle state using the > "wait" so I was looking to use the newest version and go from there. > > I appreciate all the help and guidance you can give me since am kind > of newbie with this :)
Ordinarily I'd suggest that for any open source project you can just read the "INSTALL" file or "README" file for instructions, but having just checked I see QEMU does not have an INSTALL file and the README is mostly useless. Sigh. About the only docs I can find on building QEMU are these: http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#compilation If you only want to build one particular architecture (eg x86_64), then my recommendation is: ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --prefix=$HOME/usr/qemu-1.0.1 make make install Then you can run it $HOME/usr/qemu-1.0.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|