On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:36 PM Michal Suchánek <msucha...@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 10:48:46AM -0700, Mauricio Galindo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running QEMU in user mode and I'm running into issues when trying > > to exec binaries within the emulated process given that binaries are > > expected to run in the native architecture. Would it be useful to have > > an option to rewrite execve(/bin/some_binary, ...) to > > execve(qemu-$arch-static, [/bin/some_binary, ...], ...)? > > > > This is handled in kernel by binfmt-misc. > > Debian has nice packaging for the required configuration. They use it to > create non-native installation images. > FreeBSD also uses bsd-user (admittedly a much changed one from what's upstream[*]) to build non-native packages. It uses the same binfmt stuff in a chroot. Warner [*] I've rebased our work forward up through 3.1 release and hope to have it rebased through the top of the tree shortly and have it ready for upstreaming soon.
