----- Original Message ---- From: Jan Marten Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:50:51 PM Subject: Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)
Sunil Amitkumar Janki schrieb: > Dan Shearer wrote: >> You do also have the architectures provided to you by QEMU :-) :-) >> > > I have been able to build modular Xorg for Armedslack in QEMU without > having the hardware but when I tried to port Slackware 12.0 to SPARC in > QEMU I found it was way too slow and started looking for some real > hardware. > > Maybe in the future where we have all kinds of cheap multicore processors > this will not matter much but for the moment limited resources are still > some > kind of hindrance to realizing the benefits of multi-architecture > emulation. > > Maybe I should trade in my single-core Athlon system for some serious > quadcore x86_64 chip but I'd rather wait for 16-core Loongson 3 :-). > >As Qemu cannot use multicore CPUs (partially due to missing thread >safety), yet, you won't benefit from this unless you want to run >multiple instances of Qemu in parallel. >regs, >Jan how close is thread safey?
