Re: [Qemu-devel] Porting QEMU to run on Plan9

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Bankim Bhavsar wrote:

> We are graduate students from CMU, working on an OS project. We want to port
> QEMU so it can run on Plan9 and Plan9 users can thus run Linux on Plan9 that
> way.
> 
> Is there a porting guide to port QEMU to a new host OS ? Anyone have
> suggestions on how to go about it?

I'd start by hacking configure. It is a plain shell script (no autoconf 
here). I presume you do not want to port to a new CPU? Then you only have 
to add new code for Plan 9 (just look for "SunOS", and imitate one of the 
platforms). Note that you have to disable user mode (this can only work 
when the emulated OS has the same set of syscalls).

After you can run configure successfully, I'd just start fixing 
compilation errors until I am done.

Hth,
Dscho