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diff --git a/qemu-tech.texi b/qemu-tech.texi index b6fcb2d61b..022017d55d 100644 --- a/qemu-tech.texi +++ b/qemu-tech.texi @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ SH4 @node QEMU compared to other emulators @section QEMU compared to other emulators -Like bochs [3], QEMU emulates an x86 CPU. But QEMU is much faster than +Like bochs [1], QEMU emulates an x86 CPU. But QEMU is much faster than bochs as it uses dynamic compilation. Bochs is closely tied to x86 PC emulation while QEMU can emulate several processors. @@ -333,25 +333,25 @@ than QEMU (in particular it does register allocation) but it is closely tied to an x86 host and target and has no support for precise exceptions and system emulation. -EM86 [4] is the closest project to user space QEMU (and QEMU still uses +EM86 [3] is the closest project to user space QEMU (and QEMU still uses some of its code, in particular the ELF file loader). EM86 was limited to an alpha host and used a proprietary and slow interpreter (the -interpreter part of the FX!32 Digital Win32 code translator [5]). +interpreter part of the FX!32 Digital Win32 code translator [4]). -TWIN [6] is a Windows API emulator like Wine. It is less accurate than -Wine but includes a protected mode x86 interpreter to launch x86 Windows -executables. Such an approach has greater potential because most of the -Windows API is executed natively but it is far more difficult to develop -because all the data structures and function parameters exchanged +TWIN from Willows Software was a Windows API emulator like Wine. It is less +accurate than Wine but includes a protected mode x86 interpreter to launch +x86 Windows executables. Such an approach has greater potential because most +of the Windows API is executed natively but it is far more difficult to +develop because all the data structures and function parameters exchanged between the API and the x86 code must be converted. -User mode Linux [7] was the only solution before QEMU to launch a +User mode Linux [5] was the only solution before QEMU to launch a Linux kernel as a process while not needing any host kernel patches. However, user mode Linux requires heavy kernel patches while QEMU accepts unpatched Linux kernels. The price to pay is that QEMU is slower. -The Plex86 [8] PC virtualizer is done in the same spirit as the now +The Plex86 [6] PC virtualizer is done in the same spirit as the now obsolete qemu-fast system emulator. It requires a patched Linux kernel to work (you cannot launch the same kernel on your PC), but the patches are really small. As it is a PC virtualizer (no emulation is @@ -359,13 +359,13 @@ done except for some privileged instructions), it has the potential of being faster than QEMU. The downside is that a complicated (and potentially unsafe) host kernel patch is needed. -The commercial PC Virtualizers (VMWare [9], VirtualPC [10], TwoOStwo -[11]) are faster than QEMU, but they all need specific, proprietary +The commercial PC Virtualizers (VMWare [7], VirtualPC [8]) are faster +than QEMU (without virtualization), but they all need specific, proprietary and potentially unsafe host drivers. Moreover, they are unable to provide cycle exact simulation as an emulator can. -VirtualBox [12], Xen [13] and KVM [14] are based on QEMU. QEMU-SystemC -[15] uses QEMU to simulate a system where some hardware devices are +VirtualBox [9], Xen [10] and KVM [11] are based on QEMU. QEMU-SystemC +[12] uses QEMU to simulate a system where some hardware devices are developed in SystemC. @node Portable dynamic translation @@ -608,64 +608,51 @@ way, it can be relocated at load time. @table @asis @item [1] -@url{http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/piumarta98optimizing.html}, Optimizing -direct threaded code by selective inlining (1998) by Ian Piumarta, Fabio -Riccardi. +@url{http://bochs.sourceforge.net/}, the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project, +by Kevin Lawton et al. @item [2] -@url{http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/}, Valgrind, an open-source -memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux, by Julian Seward. +@url{http://www.valgrind.org/}, Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger +for GNU/Linux. @item [3] -@url{http://bochs.sourceforge.net/}, the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project, -by Kevin Lawton et al. +@url{http://ftp.dreamtime.org/pub/linux/Linux-Alpha/em86/v0.2/docs/em86.html}, +the EM86 x86 emulator on Alpha-Linux. @item [4] -@url{http://www.cs.rose-hulman.edu/~donaldlf/em86/index.html}, the EM86 -x86 emulator on Alpha-Linux. - -@item [5] @url{http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt97/@/full_papers/chernoff/chernoff.pdf}, DIGITAL FX!32: Running 32-Bit x86 Applications on Alpha NT, by Anton Chernoff and Ray Hookway. -@item [6] -@url{http://www.willows.com/}, Windows API library emulation from -Willows Software. - -@item [7] +@item [5] @url{http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/}, The User-mode Linux Kernel. -@item [8] +@item [6] @url{http://www.plex86.org/}, The new Plex86 project. -@item [9] +@item [7] @url{http://www.vmware.com/}, The VMWare PC virtualizer. -@item [10] -@url{http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/}, +@item [8] +@url{https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=3702}, The VirtualPC PC virtualizer. -@item [11] -@url{http://www.twoostwo.org/}, -The TwoOStwo PC virtualizer. - -@item [12] +@item [9] @url{http://virtualbox.org/}, The VirtualBox PC virtualizer. -@item [13] +@item [10] @url{http://www.xen.org/}, The Xen hypervisor. -@item [14] -@url{http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Front_Page}, +@item [11] +@url{http://www.linux-kvm.org/}, Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM). -@item [15] +@item [12] @url{http://www.greensocs.com/projects/QEMUSystemC}, QEMU-SystemC, a hardware co-simulator. |