On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:48:12PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On Sep 23, 2013 8:46 AM, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 08:08:22PM -0400, Joey Carlini wrote: > > > I managed to get QEMU running on a Crouton install, virtual box not > being > > > possible with the Chrome OS kermel with the KVM mods required, and even > a > > > couple distros running. Since I enjoy pain and/or haven't done enough > cool > > > things to be called a badass dev, I figured, why not try building QEMU > into > > > a Chrome app, now that packaged apps are a thing, and native client > allows > > > for C code to run within the browser, letting an entire VM run on a > stock > > > Chromebook. > > > > QEMU isn't pure C code and effort would be required to make it run under > > Native Client. > > > > I've never used Native Client but I think its machine code verifier > > checks the application to ensure that control flow is safe. In other > > words, low-level things that QEMU does like code generation or stack > > switching are probably not allowed under Native Client since they are > > unsafe! > > I'm pretty sure coroutines would provide difficult to port too.
The gthread backend should work since it doesn't use stack-switching. But it seems like a port to NaCl would be a lot slower and more limited than a native application. Stefan
