Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John-Paul Stewart Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux "native" Virtualization: ARM64 vs x86_64 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 16:36:20 -0400 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20211101231452.2e126fb8@nx-74205> <6182e42b$0$4993$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <8NednaQqWsXRtBn8nZ2dnUU7-bHNnZ2d@giganews.com> <61842de5$0$1363$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <61842ea3$0$8918$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vkyMOmKYbBqLAcwmWzw5RwiHgX1u9nAJWlQ7J2oCBWgruiBVpv Cancel-Lock: sha1:X87SzNe8MjSuT2/tOuHh3u4SYFU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 In-Reply-To: <61842ea3$0$8918$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Content-Language: en-CA Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:33571 On 2021-11-04 3:04 p.m., Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/11/2021 à 20:00, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : >> Le 04/11/2021 à 19:54, John-Paul Stewart a écrit : >>> On 2021-11-04 2:41 p.m., Robert Heller wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm actually hoping a x86_64 emulator already exists for ARM.  I >>>> guess *worst >>>> case* I could build a x86_64 cross-compiler hosted on ARM. >>> >>> I believe QEMU can do full-system emulation of x86_64 on ARM hosts.  But >>> their documentation isn't as good as it used to be, so I'm finding it >>> difficult to locate that info to verify it. >> >> >> "This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate >> the following arm hardware: aarch64 arm." >> >> What is that for if not emulating ARM on x86 and other architectures ? > > Oops ! you meant the other way around. > > > " This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate > the following x86 hardware: i386 x86_64." > Available for arm64, armel (ARM little-endian), armhf and others. That's exactly what I was thinking, too!