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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That'd be cool.

I mean, can't you just run it with qemu-user anyway?

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let me know if I don’t know enough about what you are talking about, but I think your saying to use qemu to o run windows.

This is about running x86 code on arm processors, like what Apple does with Rosetta.

[–] Penta@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Qemu can emulate one architecture on another. And qemu-user can be used to run a single userspace-program on a different architecture.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

This is what I was refering to.

[–] bruce965@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I might be very mistaken, but I don't think QEMU can link mixed-architecture dependencies. Box86 can run an x86 game on ARM and link ARM-native shared objects for OpenGL, thus skipping emulation of some hotpath code.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

You can but the performance will be suboptimal