Re: [SSI-users] initial setup for newbies

[Alceu R. de F. J. <gla...@ya...>]

John Hughes escreveu:

> QEMU provides simple virtualised hardware, which is often easier to deal 
> with than real hardware.
> 
> For example the QEMU provided NE2000 style NIC works perfectly with 
> OpenSSI, as does the QEMU IDE disk controller.
> 
> (KVM, if it runs on your machine) should give the same benifits.
> 
> For me the other advantage of QEMU is reducing the amount of work 
> necessary to continue from a screw up.
> 

I'm not considering using QEMU because, even if I got it working, I will 
not be able to use it during my tests since I have a Perl program (that 
uses fork to divide processing work) that I would like to test if it can 
be improved without huge changes to it.

Unless using QEMU helps me identifying an error during the procedures 
I'm executing, I do not see many reasons to using it. The hardware that 
I have available for testing does not have multiple processors/cores so 
I could take advantage of them by using hardware emulation.

Please advise if QEMU could be used during my tests. I really don't know 
much about virtualization with QEMU.

Thanks in advance,
Alceu