Geoffrey Clements

"Daniel James" <wastebasket@nospam.aaisp.org> wrote in message
news:VA.0000124f.10b0cd28@nospam.aaisp.org...
> In article news:<474aed70$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net>, Geoffrey Clements
> wrote:
>> You can do that now (well I don't know about Vista) with Xp, qemu
>> lets you run Xp as a virtual machine.
>
> Nice for those that can use it ... on my Gentoo box I get a snotty
> message saying that gcc 4 can't build qemu and would I please downgrade
> my whole build to gcc 3. No, thanks. I'll wait for qemu to grow up.
>

I'm a Gentoo user too! It's very easy, gcc is slotted at the major versions
so you can install gcc-3.* alongside gcc-4.*. Before emerging qemu use
gcc-config to select gcc-3.*. After the emerge use gcc-config again to
select gcc-4.* again. The kernel module part of qemu in in a separate
package and compiles under gcc-4.*.

It's not as easy for qemu to change to the latest gcc as it re-writes code
on the fly but it I agree that will be nice when it can use it.

--
Geoff