Re: [Qemu-devel] non linux host?

[Fabrice Bellard]

Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> > as fabrice mentioned before (I just read the post thanx to address@hidden) 
> > there is the darwine project. iThink that it would be of great benefit 
> > to them and to qemu if some of the people here started talking to some 
> > of the people there.
>
>
> Getting Wine merged with QEMU to get the 'X86 application running emulated -
> Wine DLLs natively' combo is way WAY harder to get working than just getting
> QEMU running on OS/X with the former 'emulating' the Linux syscalls using
> OS/X syscalls.
>
> The second option is just boring grunt work whereas the first one needs a
> lot more work and design thoughts...

I definitely agree :-)

Another point : if some people are really interested to get QEMU work on 
MacOSX, a simpler task is to port 'vl' on MacOS X. 'vl' works currently 
only on x86, but there is really no reason for it not to be portable.

'vl' has the potential of launching _any_ x86 OS on PowerPC as it 
integrates now hardware level emulation for all the standard PC 
components (except a sound card).

Currently Linux and Freedos can be launched. Soon, unpatched Linux 
kernels, MSDOS and *bsd will run smoothly...

Fabrice.