[maemo-developers] qemu 0.10

[From: Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de> wrote:
> ----- "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just saw that a new version of qemu was released. Did anyone try
>> to use this with scratchbox? If I understand it correctly it should
>> improve the compatibility with the tablets. Is it worth a try?
>> >
>> > http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/changelog.html
>> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzEyNA
>>
>> I tried, it didn't work with threads... but now it's fixed in the
>> repository:
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu.git?a=commit;h=c2764719914ff0c4d6c06adafea17629600f21ba
>>
>> Maybe the next stable release?
>
> Thanks for your answer. How did you do it?
> What I did is:
> - Compiled qemu 0.10
> - Copied the binary qemu-0.10.0/arm-linux-user/qemu-arm to /scratchbox/devkits/cputransp/bin/qemu-arm-0.10
> - Changed /scratchbox/devkits/cputransp/etc/cputransp-methods to contain the line: qemu-arm-0.10
> - Changed /scratchbox/users/conny/targets/DIABLO_ARMEL.config to contain SBOX_CPUTRANSPARENCY_METHOD=/scratchbox/devkits/cputransp/bin/qemu-arm-0.10
>
> However this seems to be not enough (or completely wrong). When I try to run an ARM binary from inside scratchbox I get:
>
> [sbox-DIABLO_ARMEL: ~] > ./hello
> /scratchbox/tools/bin/misc_runner: /scratchbox/devkits/cputransp/bin/qemu-arm-0.10: No such file or directory
>
> I hope you can help me on that, I really would like to see if the new qemu version solves some problems that I have.

Hmm, I used scratchbox2, it so much easier to experiment with. I've
learned my lesson of hacking scratchbox1 (don't do it :P).

-- 
Felipe Contreras