Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project)

[Paul Brook]

> This could be very valuable when thinking about running qemu *on* embedded
> systems with constrained memory and processing power, which is exactly what
> the KVM for embedded PowerPC project is considering. In that scenario,
> being able to strip out all unnecessary functionality (especially
> including devices known to be irrelevant) becomes very important.

If you care about memory overhead the last thing you want is to be loading 
loads of bitty little shared libraries. You want to build a single binary 
with just the features you need.

Paul