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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

James Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> > I see that qemu for Linux is only available as source code.  Is there
> > enough in BL3.4 to compile it (after adding the extra 9.0 libraries
> > mention in Steven's "library" page, or does it need more ?
>
> David gave a link for a binary that he, I (and possibly Steven) have
> gotten to install and run on BL3.4--so long as you add the other libraries
> David listed in his recent post about how to do this.  Those are some bits
> from Slack 9.0.  It might not be as simple as it might seem to get your
> scanner to work from a Win9x instance running under qemu, though.  It
> emulates hardware, and I'm not sure it can access a real parallel port
> (assuming your scanner uses a parallel port).

>From the QEMU Changelog <http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/changelog.html>:

version 0.8.0:
<snip>
  - Initial USB support
  - Linux host serial port access
  - Linux host low level parallel port access
[...]

I wonder if the USB support would work very well with a 2.2 kernel?

David