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minus-squarePenta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 days agoQemu can emulate one architecture on another. And qemu-user can be used to run a single userspace-program on a different architecture.
minus-squarebruce965@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-25 days agoI 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.
Qemu can emulate one architecture on another. And qemu-user can be used to run a single userspace-program on a different architecture.
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.
This is what I was refering to.