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diff --git a/system/qemu/README b/system/qemu/README index fd2868f0e4..176f06bb5d 100644 --- a/system/qemu/README +++ b/system/qemu/README @@ -1,14 +1,12 @@ -QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation. +QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. +This is a binary release, repacked for Slackware's package management +system. -QEMU has two operating modes: +It seems the /usr/bin/qemu is hard-coded to look for some files in +/usr/local/share - there are at least two ways to work around this +after the package is installed: + 1. cd /usr/local/share ; ln -s /usr/share/qemu qemu + 2. replace -s /usr/local/ /usr/./././ /usr/bin/qemu -Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for example a PC), including a processor and various peripherials. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or to debug system code. - -User mode emulation (Linux host only). In this mode, QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. - - -An optional proprietary QEMU Accelerator Module (kqemu) is available to optimize the case where a PC is emulated on a PC. This module enables QEMU to run most of the target application code directly on the host processor to achieve near native performance. - -This build of QEMU is built with support for kqemu. To achieve this, the QEMU build process probes for current kernel path. A different kernel path can be set by editing qemu.SlackBuild. QEMU and kqemu should be built and used against the same kernel version. -If you are not planning on using kqemu, you may edit the SlackBuild and remove the --enable-kqemu line if you wish.
\ No newline at end of file +The first method is the safest, but either should work relatively well. |