QEMU can build and run on a MIPS32 host - it just needs a few patches (which were already sent to the list but got lost in CVS head).
The patched sources I use to run QEMU MIPS Malta with Debian stable inside of a QEMU Malta emulation on x86 hardware are available from URL http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/ar7-firmware/qemu/branches/head/ Use this command to get them: svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/ar7-firmware/qemu/branches/head/ Any combination of big and little endian works with pcnet32: qemu-system-mipsel in qemu-system-mips, qemu-system-mipsel in qemu-system-mipsel, qemu-system-mips in qemu-system-mips, qemu-system-mips in qemu-system-mipsel. Other network emulations only work with some of these combinations. User mode emulation won't work, but it does not work on any platform - not even x86. I did not check MIPS64 emulation. Stefan > Do you have any idea of what else is needed to get QEMU to a usable > state on > MIPS hosts? Are there any other ideas for virtualisation such as Xen > or VMware/ > SimOS? I have asked on the Xen-devel list but nobody gave any feedback > there.
