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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoThat’d be cool. I mean, can’t you just run it with qemu-user anyway?
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoI guess it is more performant. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/131147
minus-squareM500@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoLet me know if I don’t know enough about what you are talking about, but I think your saying to use qemu to o run windows. This is about running x86 code on arm processors, like what Apple does with Rosetta.
minus-squarePenta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoQemu can emulate one architecture on another. And qemu-user can be used to run a single userspace-program on a different architecture.
minus-squarebruce965@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months agoI might be very mistaken, but I don’t think QEMU can link mixed-architecture dependencies. Box86 can run an x86 game on ARM and link ARM-native shared objects for OpenGL, thus skipping emulation of some hotpath code.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou can but the performance will be suboptimal
That’d be cool.
I mean, can’t you just run it with qemu-user anyway?
I guess it is more performant.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/131147
Let me know if I don’t know enough about what you are talking about, but I think your saying to use qemu to o run windows.
This is about running x86 code on arm processors, like what Apple does with Rosetta.
Qemu can emulate one architecture on another. And qemu-user can be used to run a single userspace-program on a different architecture.
I might be very mistaken, but I don’t think QEMU can link mixed-architecture dependencies. Box86 can run an x86 game on ARM and link ARM-native shared objects for OpenGL, thus skipping emulation of some hotpath code.
This is what I was refering to.
You can but the performance will be suboptimal