On 10/16/08 2:12 PM, "Richard Gasiorowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whats QEMU? QEMU is a set of dynamic code generation tools that can take binaries for one CPU architecture and run them on a different CPU architecture with some additional processing to map system calls and some other incidental stuff. It works for SPARC, POWER, and Alpha at the moment, with work being done for IA32 and x86_64 architectures. It takes the original opcodes and dynamically builds native instruction streams for the host architecture, which makes it significantly faster than the pure emulation approach used by Bochs. It's never going to be native performance, but if you're replacing older hardware, it may be good enough to do what you need it to do. > And who is we're working on it. Several folks in R&D here at Sine Nomine, some people at Sun, and a few other people interested in host emulation out in the open source community. > I have a situation NOW that > can use this type of capability. Let's talk off-list. > What I find interesting is the total > "Hush" from the IBM team on this topic. To be fair, if IBM *was* working on such a thing, the IBMers on this list couldn't comment on it until it was announced so you can't really blame them for not saying anything. They need jobs too, and that kind of faux pas at IBM tends to cause jobs to evaporate. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
