On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:52:45AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 12 June 2018 at 07:24, Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> wrote: > > For example, I wanted to compile QEMU once and install it on multiple > > systems. What would be the suggested way to do so? > > For this, I would recommend using whatever the packaging > format for those systems is. Eg for Debian use the existing > Debian QEMU packages, for Redhat systems use RPMs, etc. > If you want a newer version of QEMU than is in the distro's > packages, you can probably forward port the packaging parts > to a newer QEMU without too much pain. > > Or you can use a distro-agnostic packaging tool of some sort; > there are a few out there but I have no particular recommendations.
I'll start my investigation with RPM first. Thanks Peter. -- Peter Xu