Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Shearer
of time stamp to correlate the data from the command line and the last updated time of the primary image file. If there have to be separate files I'd prefer a weak hash to timestamps to avoid the common problems with unexpected drift and no way to calculate which changed and why. -- Dan Shearer

Re: [Qemu-devel] Why not use exit() instead of abort()?

2007-08-05 Thread Dan Shearer
correct me here?) there is another reason to call atexit() for portable programs, and that is that Microsoft OSs aren't as fussy about cleaning up after a program has exited. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Qemu-devel] replacing dyngen (was: S/390 host fixed)

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Shearer
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:23:45PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: Some parts of this code effectively are a special language for describing a CPU, that happen to be implemented using the C preprocessor :-) Right, in the same way that QEMU devices written in C are in a device language? :-) -- Dan

[Qemu-devel] Virtualbox released under GPL2+

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Shearer
module says GPL2 as per COPYING, but COPYING is in fact GPL2+. So far looks like a very tidy piece of work. Now to compile it and try it out... the debugger looks like it might have a nice idea or two in it. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtualBox PC virtualization released as Open Source

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Shearer
only thinks it's running ring-0 code, but VirtualBox has fooled the guest OS to instead enter ring 1 (which is normally unused with x86 operating systems). --- end quote -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel