Re: [Qemu-devel] x86_64 vs. i386

2006-08-20 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 7/31/06, Philipp Gühring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [32bit vs 64bit libraries] Now I am wondering, whether it would be possible to integrate the processor emulator of qemu into the Linux kernel, so that applications can transparently use different-bitsized libraries by qemulating them on deman

Re: [Qemu-devel] Ensuring data is written to disk

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 8/7/06, R. Armiento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lets assume this typical website setup: HARDWARE: commodity SATA/PATA; drive cache is not battery backed up. HOST OS: late Linux 2.6 kernel (e.g. 2.6.15), directly, on top of host, a recent version of database software (e.g. MySQL 5.1). Running in

Re: [Qemu-devel] ?off? ide/code editor under linux

2006-08-06 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 8/6/06, NyOS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a good IDE (or just a good code editor) under linux. My first try was kdevelop approx. 3 years ago (2.2.2 version). It was too complicated. 3.x.x is a bit unstable. Vi is unconfortable for me, I prefer using pico and gnu nano, but it's to

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu - where will it go?

2006-01-14 Thread Thomas Steffen
Hi Juergen! On 1/14/06, Juergen Pfennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as I found out qemu is quite stable and has acceptable performance. Using it > you > could freeze legacy applications using a legacy OS like win 2003 or win XP. I > am > talking of periods from 5 to 20 years! Yes, that is a go

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and Synergy?

2005-10-27 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 10/22/05, Oliver Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is anyone here using Synergy (see synergy2.sf.net) to make the mouse go > smoothly from host to guest? At first glance, I'd say Synergy offers > much of the stuff that's necessary for easing the use of Qemu: it can > transport mouse and keybo

Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU

2005-10-06 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 10/6/05, Karl Magdsick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wrote:> In order to pass the "D drive" to qemu, and actually give QEMU access> to the entire raw HD, the "D drive" partition would have to fill the entire> HD, and MS Windows would have to make the MBR available as part > of the first (only, in

Re: [Qemu-devel] Q: Issue booting Solaris 8 (SPARC)

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 8/1/05, Blue Swirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like the boot block gets loaded correctly (nice data point). It's a > bit confusing to see UFS in the error message, shouldn't that be ISOFS or > CDFS? Unless the Solaris install CDs have changed since I least investigated them: no. They con

[Qemu-devel] Solaris/SPARC binaries

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas Steffen
Hi, can I use qemu to run Solaris binaries for SPARCv8 or better even SPARCv9 (64bit)? Installiing Solaris under qemu would be ideal, but I found no hind how to do it, or whether it is indeed possible. Running Solaris binaries under a Linux/sparc kernel (which is booting fine) should be an optio

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] gcc4 host support

2005-05-20 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 5/20/05, John Hogerhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But once you are past that point gcc for a given arch, gcc isn't > really going to help you any more. So bring on the hand > coding/optimizations. And for popular combinations of architectures, such as x86 or PPC on each other, I absolute a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] gcc4 host support

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 5/19/05, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. The problem is to turn machine code into (a different form of) machine > code. A lot of the complexity in a compiler is involved with with turning the > high-level language constructs into simple low-level machine operations. I see your point

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] gcc4 host support

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 5/19/05, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think GNU lightning really gains us much. We'd still have to do the > hard bits (optimization, register allocation, assigning stack slots, etc). > The actual native code generation (which is what lightning gives you) is only > a few hundr

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Laptop Idea

2005-05-01 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 4/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben; > Unfortunately, there aren't too many disk imaging programs I'd recommend. > Both Norton Ghost (the old version) and DriveImage (the old version) have > problems. And I certainly wouldn't recommend the new versions. None of the