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From: | Josiah Walker |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] QEMU and its possibilities |
Date: | Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:16:55 +0000 |
One important question I'd like to ask regards the portability of QEMU. It is already ported to several important systems, but one OS that it could have a huge impact on is Apple's os X. It is BSD based and so all the basic Linux ideas should work - and if I had the understanding of the system I would try to port it myself. Unfortunately I don't.
If QEMU were ported to Apple machines then it would open up a whole new range of possibilities for Apple users wanting to run windows programs - wine could be run through emulation and many useful programs could be used. I say this mainly because my Apple computer doesn't support any Linux systems at the moment (a strange way to put it, but there's something in the hardware/firmware that won't allow linux to boot - I've tried several systems).
Another interesting port to look at in relation to QEMU is Darwine ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwine/ ). The group is porting Wine to Mac OS, and in the future they will be looking for a fast x86 emulator to integrate into their native wine libraries. They are currently considering QEMU as a likely candidate from what I've heard.
Anyway, I was just wondering what your thoughts were on expanding to other operating systems such as Mac OS, because I love the ideas behind this emulator and I'd like to try it out, but I can't with my current system. Keep up the good work, if you guys can't port it to Mac OS, then I'm sure another avid fan will.
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