On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:54:22PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > qemu now accepts kernel help in executing its vm. > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-accel.html > > the interesting parts of the kernel module itself are > closed, but the interface that qemu uses is open. > if anyone out there feels like x86 hacking, it would > be cool to have a plan 9 version of the module so > that qemu could be used as a vmware-substitute > that ran on top of plan 9.
Hmm. qemu depends upon some 'interesting' code generation using the output of GCC. So it _really_ needs gcc as the compiler - generating ELF. (There are some other flavours of output, but I'm not sure if they're easier than ELF - have a read of dyngen.c) DF
