On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:04 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > This could be very valuable when thinking about running qemu *on* embedded > > systems with constrained memory and processing power, which is exactly what > > the KVM for embedded PowerPC project is considering. In that scenario, > > being able to strip out all unnecessary functionality (especially > > including devices known to be irrelevant) becomes very important. > > If you care about memory overhead the last thing you want is to be loading > loads of bitty little shared libraries. You want to build a single binary > with just the features you need.
Presumably, like most other packages, the .a's would be installed too such that a static binary could be built. If you were looking to build a single-purposed process that didn't have all the features of QEMU, then this would certainly help. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Paul > >
