marrandy wrote:
>This might be interesting to some people.
>
>
>http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>
>In case you don't know the name: it's the guy who wrote LZEXE, a small
>opengl, ffmpeg and recently tcc. Now he's done it again: he wrote a CPU
>emulator that can run an ARM Linux kernel plus user space on an x86 CPU
>(and vice versa).
>
>PowerPC host CPU also works, and Alpha, Sparc and IA64 are also working or
>being worked on.
>
>The code translation engine is about as quick as valgrind, i.e. the code
>is not just interpreted, it is recompiled. He supports self modifying
>code as well.
>
>Apparently he ran DOSEMU and WINE on a PowerPC box.
>
>You don't have to emulate the whole kernel, there also is a syscall
>translation layer so you can run binaries for other platforms directly.
>
>I haven't actually tried it yet, but given Fabrice's previous
>accomplishments I have no reason to doubt any of his claims.
>
Great find!!! Thanks!
- Ian
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