Re: [PATCH RESEND v6 00/36] Initial support for multi-process qemu

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:30:30AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > I suggest dropping the remote device program from this patch series (and
> > > maybe never bringing it back).  Instead, use the softmmu target for the
> > > remote device.

...

> > 
> > Building QEMU twices just to get the remote is however not very
> > attractive. So how about making remote a special target?
> > Either remote-softmmu/ or if impossible x86_64-remote-softmmu/
> 
> Yes, that's a good idea.  It needs to be the full x86_64-remote-softmmu
> because hw/ code depends on the QEMU target :(.

BTW using QEMU as backend source also gives us goodies such as
cross-version compatibility for free.

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