Re: [Qemu-discuss] Install multiple forks of QEMU

[Greg Kurz]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:28:26 -0500
"Stephen Bates" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Apologies in advance if this information is already available but a search
> of the WWW and the qemu mailing archives did not yield anything:
> 
> I am working on a few different topics (RISC-V, NVMe, PMEM) and need to
> have multiple forks of QEMU on my system at the same time. Is there a way
> of installing qemu in different locations and have them play nicely
> together? The ./configure does not mention an install location directive,
> nor does the Makefile.
> 

Hmm... I have a bunch of QEMU installed on my system for development purpose:

$ ./configure --help |& grep '\--prefix'
  --prefix=PREFIX          install in PREFIX [/usr/local]

Cheers.

--
Greg

> Ideally I would like to install the upstream version of qemu at the
> default location and install the forks in /opt/qemu/<fork name>. Another
> option I can see is to use docker containers for each one but I would like
> to avoid that if possible.
> 
> If I work out how to do this and if the documentation in this area *is*
> lacking I'll be happy to submit a patch to update the documents.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Stephen Bates
>