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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patche
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Anthony Liguori |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project) |
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Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:52:08 -0500 |
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:04 +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > 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.
Presumably, like most other packages, the .a's would be installed too
such that a static binary could be built. If you were looking to build
a single-purposed process that didn't have all the features of QEMU,
then this would certainly help.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Paul
>
>
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Maria Zabolotnaya, 2007/09/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Blue Swirl, 2007/09/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Anthony Liguori, 2007/09/03
- [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project), Hollis Blanchard, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project), Paul Brook, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project), Hollis Blanchard, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project), Paul Brook, 2007/09/04
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project), Jimi Xenidis, 2007/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project),
Anthony Liguori <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Brian Johnson, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Anthony Liguori, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Thiemo Seufer, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Anthony Liguori, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Anthony Liguori, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Fabrice Bellard, 2007/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project, Paul Sokolovsky, 2007/09/04