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The TwoOStwo and Willows page seem to have disappeared completely, and also some of the other links were not pointing to the right locations anymore. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1443173916-8895-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@node QEMU compared to other emulators
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@section QEMU compared to other emulators
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Like bochs [3], QEMU emulates an x86 CPU. But QEMU is much faster than
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Like bochs [1], QEMU emulates an x86 CPU. But QEMU is much faster than
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bochs as it uses dynamic compilation. Bochs is closely tied to x86 PC
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emulation while QEMU can emulate several processors.
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tied to an x86 host and target and has no support for precise exceptions
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and system emulation.
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EM86 [4] is the closest project to user space QEMU (and QEMU still uses
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EM86 [3] is the closest project to user space QEMU (and QEMU still uses
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some of its code, in particular the ELF file loader). EM86 was limited
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to an alpha host and used a proprietary and slow interpreter (the
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interpreter part of the FX!32 Digital Win32 code translator [5]).
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interpreter part of the FX!32 Digital Win32 code translator [4]).
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TWIN [6] is a Windows API emulator like Wine. It is less accurate than
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Wine but includes a protected mode x86 interpreter to launch x86 Windows
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executables. Such an approach has greater potential because most of the
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Windows API is executed natively but it is far more difficult to develop
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because all the data structures and function parameters exchanged
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TWIN from Willows Software was a Windows API emulator like Wine. It is less
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accurate than Wine but includes a protected mode x86 interpreter to launch
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x86 Windows executables. Such an approach has greater potential because most
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of the Windows API is executed natively but it is far more difficult to
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develop because all the data structures and function parameters exchanged
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between the API and the x86 code must be converted.
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User mode Linux [7] was the only solution before QEMU to launch a
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User mode Linux [5] was the only solution before QEMU to launch a
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Linux kernel as a process while not needing any host kernel
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patches. However, user mode Linux requires heavy kernel patches while
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QEMU accepts unpatched Linux kernels. The price to pay is that QEMU is
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slower.
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The Plex86 [8] PC virtualizer is done in the same spirit as the now
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The Plex86 [6] PC virtualizer is done in the same spirit as the now
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obsolete qemu-fast system emulator. It requires a patched Linux kernel
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to work (you cannot launch the same kernel on your PC), but the
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patches are really small. As it is a PC virtualizer (no emulation is
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being faster than QEMU. The downside is that a complicated (and
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potentially unsafe) host kernel patch is needed.
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The commercial PC Virtualizers (VMWare [9], VirtualPC [10], TwoOStwo
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[11]) are faster than QEMU, but they all need specific, proprietary
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The commercial PC Virtualizers (VMWare [7], VirtualPC [8]) are faster
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than QEMU (without virtualization), but they all need specific, proprietary
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and potentially unsafe host drivers. Moreover, they are unable to
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provide cycle exact simulation as an emulator can.
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VirtualBox [12], Xen [13] and KVM [14] are based on QEMU. QEMU-SystemC
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[15] uses QEMU to simulate a system where some hardware devices are
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VirtualBox [9], Xen [10] and KVM [11] are based on QEMU. QEMU-SystemC
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[12] uses QEMU to simulate a system where some hardware devices are
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developed in SystemC.
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@node Portable dynamic translation
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@table @asis
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@item [1]
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@url{http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/piumarta98optimizing.html}, Optimizing
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direct threaded code by selective inlining (1998) by Ian Piumarta, Fabio
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Riccardi.
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@item [2]
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@url{http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/}, Valgrind, an open-source
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memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux, by Julian Seward.
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@item [3]
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@url{http://bochs.sourceforge.net/}, the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project,
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by Kevin Lawton et al.
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@item [4]
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@url{http://www.cs.rose-hulman.edu/~donaldlf/em86/index.html}, the EM86
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x86 emulator on Alpha-Linux.
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@item [2]
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@url{http://www.valgrind.org/}, Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger
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for GNU/Linux.
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@item [5]
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@item [3]
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@url{http://ftp.dreamtime.org/pub/linux/Linux-Alpha/em86/v0.2/docs/em86.html},
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the EM86 x86 emulator on Alpha-Linux.
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@item [4]
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@url{http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt97/@/full_papers/chernoff/chernoff.pdf},
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DIGITAL FX!32: Running 32-Bit x86 Applications on Alpha NT, by Anton
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Chernoff and Ray Hookway.
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@item [6]
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@url{http://www.willows.com/}, Windows API library emulation from
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Willows Software.
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@item [7]
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@item [5]
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@url{http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/},
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The User-mode Linux Kernel.
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@item [8]
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@item [6]
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@url{http://www.plex86.org/},
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The new Plex86 project.
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@item [9]
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@item [7]
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@url{http://www.vmware.com/},
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The VMWare PC virtualizer.
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@item [10]
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@url{http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/},
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@item [8]
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@url{https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=3702},
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The VirtualPC PC virtualizer.
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@item [11]
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@url{http://www.twoostwo.org/},
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The TwoOStwo PC virtualizer.
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@item [12]
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@item [9]
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@url{http://virtualbox.org/},
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The VirtualBox PC virtualizer.
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@item [13]
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@item [10]
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@url{http://www.xen.org/},
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The Xen hypervisor.
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@item [14]
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@url{http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Front_Page},
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@item [11]
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@url{http://www.linux-kvm.org/},
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Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM).
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@item [15]
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@item [12]
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@url{http://www.greensocs.com/projects/QEMUSystemC},
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QEMU-SystemC, a hardware co-simulator.
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