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-QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation.
+QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
+This is a binary release, repacked for Slackware's package management
+system.
-QEMU has two operating modes:
+It seems the /usr/bin/qemu is hard-coded to look for some files in
+/usr/local/share - there are at least two ways to work around this
+after the package is installed:
+ 1. cd /usr/local/share ; ln -s /usr/share/qemu qemu
+ 2. replace -s /usr/local/ /usr/./././ /usr/bin/qemu
-Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for example a PC), including a processor and various peripherials. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or to debug system code.
-
-User mode emulation (Linux host only). In this mode, QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU.
-
-
-An optional proprietary QEMU Accelerator Module (kqemu) is available to optimize the case where a PC is emulated on a PC. This module enables QEMU to run most of the target application code directly on the host processor to achieve near native performance.
-
-This build of QEMU is built with support for kqemu. To achieve this, the QEMU build process probes for current kernel path. A different kernel path can be set by editing qemu.SlackBuild. QEMU and kqemu should be built and used against the same kernel version.
-If you are not planning on using kqemu, you may edit the SlackBuild and remove the --enable-kqemu line if you wish. \ No newline at end of file
+The first method is the safest, but either should work relatively well.