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Steev can't give away ALL of his secrets to gettin bitches

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Nerdy software and hardware emulation doesn't get bitches.

Here's how I'm picturing one possible solution:

x86 Linux OS and all of my wonderful programs
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Maybe some kind of hardware emulation, possibly QEMU?
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ARM processor

Nearly all Linux software has already been ported to ARM, what do you need to run?


Anyway just install the qemu package for your distro and do

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$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.img 10G
$ qemu-system-i386 -m 256 -hda disk.img -cdrom os-installer.iso -boot d

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Or you can use qemu's usermode emulation:

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$ qemu-i386 /path/to/x86_binary

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You must have every library that the x86 software depends on (also compiled for x86)

--- Quote from: Steep on 07-05-2012, 18:06:40 PM ---
Nearly all Linux software has already been ported to ARM, what do you need to run?


Anyway just install the qemu package for your distro and do

--- Code: ---
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.img 10G
$ qemu-system-i386 -m 256 -hda disk.img -cdrom os-installer.iso -boot d

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Or you can use qemu's usermode emulation:

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$ qemu-i386 /path/to/x86_binary

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You must have every library that the x86 software depends on (also compiled for x86)

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Ideally, I would like to get QEMU's usermode emulation working at boot time to load up a desktop Linux OS and I'm completely braindead right now so please translate the message to something I can understand.

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Anyway just install the qemu package for your distro and do
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What do you mean my distro? I don't know of any x86 Linux distro that comes with QEMU so that it can boot up on mobile devices.


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Or you can use qemu's usermode emulation:
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Yeah, that would be nice. And how do I do that? Last time I checked, QEMU x86->ARM support was buggy as poo poo.


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You must have every library that the x86 software depends on (also compiled for x86)
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That is not the problem here! Any Linux distro or Wine or some BSD distro, even Windows comes with all of the necessary libraries, compiled for x86. I don't see that as a problem, relative to the obvious lack of x86 emulation software for ARM.

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Bottom line, I either need a mobile device that has a x86 processor or a platform that will emulate one on the ARM processor.

PHAZR

--- Quote from: WINNEROverTheRoad on 07-05-2012, 19:37:52 PM ---
PHAZR

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That doesn't have one of those x86 processors by the looks of it.

Qemu's user emulation mode is not what you want.
It is used to run a single non-native executable as if it were a native one (e.g. an x86 executable on an ARM host system)

But you want run a full x86 operating system in emulation.

Qemu can do that too, but:

1. It's probably going to be slow

2. There is no reason to emulate x86 to run Linux on ARM.
Linux already has great ARM support and nearly all the major distros support it (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Slackware, Fedora, Puppy, and others)

So just buy one of those x86 umpc's from 2007
It's nigga-technology but I don't care anymore

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--- Quote from: WINNEROverTheRoad on 07-05-2012, 19:37:52 PM ---
PHAZR

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That doesn't have one of those x86 processors by the looks of it.

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I'm I revoke my right to be a member of this communitying the whole thread.

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--- Quote from: WINNEROverTheRoad on 07-05-2012, 19:37:52 PM ---
PHAZR

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That doesn't have one of those x86 processors by the looks of it.

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thunder throws it down

also my summery of this topic

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don't forget the kissing and hugging

--- Quote from: Steep on 07-05-2012, 21:46:07 PM ---
Qemu's user emulation mode is not what you want.
It is used to run a single non-native executable as if it were a native one (e.g. an x86 executable on an ARM host system)

But you want run a full x86 operating system in emulation.

Qemu can do that too, but:

1. It's probably going to be slow

2. There is no reason to emulate x86 to run Linux on ARM.
Linux already has great ARM support and nearly all the major distros support it (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Slackware, Fedora, Puppy, and others)

So just buy one of those x86 umpc's from 2007
It's nigga-technology but I don't care anymore


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Well, I could Install Puppy Linux for ARM and get QEMU working for usermode emulation, but how?

THIS IS COOL
http://www.openpandora.org/

A full-fledged Linux PC in your POCKET
With REAL 10 HOUR BATTERY, bluetooth, wifi, storage, keyboard, gamepad, huge community, WOW

It is kind of expensive tho for reasons described here but I heard you're hella rich now cuz you sold your video games that's cool1!!!

wow they're still making/marketing that hunk of junk