Write Emulator-Friendly Linux Code
By Peter Seebach2005-04-16
Partial Hardware Emulators
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Partial hardware emulators are an intermediate solution: they emulate a computer, but only a computer of the type they're actually hosted on. Programs like this reduce the cost of emulation by generally performing at speeds comparable to the host machine. Examples include the Serenity Virtual Station and VMWare.
These systems are most useful when you have applications for a variety of systems and need to run them all at once. Like full hardware emulators, systems like this will be running a full Linux OS environment, and your program should be fine as long as it's reasonably portable across Linux systems. However, once again, portability to older versions of Linux will help a lot. People using a virtual machine may want to run an older, smaller version of Linux on it.
Tutorial Pages:
» A Developer's Guide to Linux Emulators and How They Operate
» The Basic Emulator
» Emulators as a Distribution Format
» Full Hardware Emulators
» Partial Hardware Emulators
» Software Emulators
» Like Normal Development, Only More So
» Resources
First published by IBM DeveloperWorks
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