Using QEMU for development
Registered by
Michael Hope
QEMU is useful inside Linaro as it's easier to acquire and maintain than physical boards. Discuss potential uses such as a development host, buildd host, user-mode, the current limitations, and the next steps.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Peter Maydell
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
* what are the use cases?
** development host
** buildd (i.e. package builder)
*** using a host compiler?
** image build
** others?
* what are the limitations/
** documentation
** emulation quality
** limited set of device models?
** performance
** configuring for network, convenient host filesystem access, etc
** needing the "right" qemu (mainline, meego, etc)
* could we do things to make qemu a better tool than a devboard?
** quality/convenience of debug facilities?
* what are the most important things to improve?
(?)
