Re: [Qemu-devel] Using native libraries

2007-05-21 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
Hi, I'm sure someone's probably had a similar idea before, and it's probably not practical for some reason I'm overlooking-- but is there a reason Qemu can't dynamically translate library calls to use the native libraries instead of requiring emulated libraries as well? It should be poss

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using native libraries

2007-05-21 Thread Luke -Jr
On Monday 21 May 2007 16:13, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The easiest way to do that is by having an "RPC stub library" in the > emulated environment which contains nothing but trap instructions -- > like system calls -- that can be intercepted on the other side. At that > point, one has to do translat

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using native libraries

2007-05-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Luke -Jr wrote: > I'm sure someone's probably had a similar idea before, and it's probably not > practical for some reason I'm overlooking-- but is there a reason Qemu can't > dynamically translate library calls to use the native libraries instead of > requiring emulated libraries as well? The

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using native libraries

2007-05-21 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On 5/21/07, Luke -Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm sure someone's probably had a similar idea before, and it's probably not practical for some reason I'm overlooking-- but is there a reason Qemu can't dynamically translate library calls to use the native libraries instead of requiring emulated l

[Qemu-devel] Using native libraries

2007-05-21 Thread Luke -Jr
I'm sure someone's probably had a similar idea before, and it's probably not practical for some reason I'm overlooking-- but is there a reason Qemu can't dynamically translate library calls to use the native libraries instead of requiring emulated libraries as well?