[ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

[Niels Horn]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Robby Workman <robby at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
> Stuart Winter <mozes at slackware.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current.
>> I only added these years ago because my real ARM hardware died and I
>> needed a stop gap.
>>
>> The thing is that QEMU is *so slow* that I cannot imagine it being
>> useful at all, apart from a 10 minute novelty for x86 users.
>> It takes time to test whether the installation works, and takes time
>> to build the Versatile kernel.
>>
>> Is anybody going to miss it if I drop the packages and install docs?
>
>
> Well...  I would, since I often build packages in a qemu VM (I'm
> usually in no hurry, so time isn't a problem).  However, I can
> adjust :-)
>
> -RW

Yeah, I'd miss it too... I still use qemu with its snapshot feature to
build packages on a "clean" installation.
My real ARM hardware has too many packages installed to consider it a
clean installation.

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Niels Horn