On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:41:24PM -0700, Corbin Champion wrote: > I have used qemu for some time. I am curious how the shell or os detects > that qemu is needed to run a program? > > The reason for this is as follows: > I am on a system, but am not root. The system does not have qemu installed > by root, and it will not be, but I have downloaded it myself. I can run > programs manually via *qemu-arm program_name* as usual. But, I would like > the shell or os to auto detect that qemu is needed. > > How is this normally done? How do I pull off the same as non-root (even if > it is complicated)?
As root you can setup binfmt-misc, which teaches the kernel to invoke foreign executables through QEMU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binfmt_misc As non-root it may be necessary to use shell aliases or wrapper scripts. This requires setup for every program you wish to launch via QEMU. Stefan
