[Qemu-devel] Re: [Darwine] QEMU+WINE

[Fabrice Bellard]

Hi,

I think it is more interesting to do a 'darwin-i386-user' version of 
QEMU. Emulating Linux on Darwin adds an extra layer of complexity which 
is of no use for Wine as there is already a Darwin port of Wine.

Fabrice.

Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:
> Did you get any feedback from Fabrice about the (linux-)i386-user Mac OS 
> X Port? I remember him to be not so encouraging with this Port. For my 
> part I think it should be possible to have something working a lot 
> better, but I am not sure about the real difficulties. And a 
> darwin-i386-user would be probably easy to create.
>
> Fabrice could you give us a hint about what you think?
>
> Pierre.
>
> PS: I am CC-ing this thread to the qemu-devel and to Fabrice.
>
> Le 21 août 04, à 22:36, Pablo Bendersky a écrit :
>
> > I got Pierre's patch and tried to extend it for more syscall
> > emulation, but didn't got much further... I was able to run linux/x86
> > binary of ls (but it fails with ls -la, don't know why yet).
> > I'm interested on moving forward with that, but not sure on how to 
> > continue.
> >
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:29:00 +0200, Pierre d'Herbemont 
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I did. I got some very simple linux/x86 binary running (the sha-1
> > > tool) on a Mac OS X host. Going deeper is more tricky since we have to
> > > emulate linux syscall and behaviour. Basically having qemu-user running
> > > on Mac OS X for Darwin/x86 binaries is having a mach-o loader, and
> > > having the necessary call conversion. It is also a lot of work, but it
> > > is interesting. Then it would require Wine Darwin/x86 port, but that
> > > one is much more easier.
> > >
> > > Pierre.
> > >
> > > Le 21 août 04, à 21:15, Jim White a écrit :
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > I just noticed the bit on QEMU's home page about User Mode and how it
> > > > can be used to run Linux targets like WINE.  Seems to me like that
> > > > could be a quick way to run X86 binaries.  Has anyone looked into
> > > > if/how this would work?
> > > >
> > > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> > > >
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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