On Sep 23, 2013 8:46 AM, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 08:08:22PM -0400, Joey Carlini wrote: > > I managed to get QEMU running on a Crouton install, virtual box not being > > possible with the Chrome OS kermel with the KVM mods required, and even a > > couple distros running. Since I enjoy pain and/or haven't done enough cool > > things to be called a badass dev, I figured, why not try building QEMU into > > a Chrome app, now that packaged apps are a thing, and native client allows > > for C code to run within the browser, letting an entire VM run on a stock > > Chromebook. > > QEMU isn't pure C code and effort would be required to make it run under > Native Client. > > I've never used Native Client but I think its machine code verifier > checks the application to ensure that control flow is safe. In other > words, low-level things that QEMU does like code generation or stack > switching are probably not allowed under Native Client since they are > unsafe!
I'm pretty sure coroutines would provide difficult to port too. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Maybe I'm wrong and it's possible, but the first thing to check is the > constraints that Native Client puts on the application code. > > Stefan >
