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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2007-11-14 03:42:20
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Valgrind-3.3.0 is well overdue, and I am thinking about how to do the testing that goes along with any major release. For x86 and amd64, VMware Workstation is invaluable: it makes it easy to test & do any required fixes for a bunch of hopefully representative x86/amd64 Linux distros, ranging from the brand new (FC8, openSUSE 10.3) to much older ones, using just one real machine. But testing on ppc32/ppc64 is a problem, and is becoming more so. Is there any equivalent way to test on multiple ppc Linux distros without having a collection of PowerPC machines around? Despite heroic efforts by some of the QEMU developers, QEMU is not yet at the stage where it can run unmodified ppc Linux distros. SimICS could probably do it, but looks expensive. I guess Xen is a possibility. But it requires modified kernels, which rules out older distros (as guests), I would have thought. J |