qemu-system-sparc (x2) on Linux host + VDE2 + distcc

[Andrew-R]

Well, I finally did it! (had this idea for looong ime, to try and network two qemu instances so they can compile stuff together)

Re: multiple qemu networking together and with host (Linux host)

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I am not sure if it makes sense for PowerPC/OSX as host (new qemu is no go there) but because some qemu machines only single CPU, or, like in sparc case -smp 2 is unstable in NetBSD this can be useful for some speedups!


I used this guide as starting point:

| Details | Hackaday.io

<p name="f282"><inline>This HOW-TO explains a quick and easy way to speed up NetBSD pkgsrc compiling on retrocomputers. It was written because there are altogether too many distcc how-tos which are complex, require special build environments or make assumptions without explaining what's going on...

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and this page for qemu networking:

Networking using 86Box and VDE in Linux

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Andrew_R (@Andrew_R@mastodon.online)

Attached: 1 image Finally got distcc working between two qemu instances!

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There also was lnk for OSX 10.4/10.3 PPC cross-compiler setup

MacOS X and Distcc | Left 404

But I m not sure how well you can replicate that (re to all those users who have slow ppc laptops).

 

[Andrew-R]

Downloads

lol, it even works (today I learned that our cloud provider can also host simple static websites (Google apparently can too, like Amazon Web Services ...) and used s3cmd (+ also firefox browser 140.something from Slackware 15.0 - so not purely modern-free solution) for uploading NetBSD/sparc packages to it, with listing generated by 'tree' command as suggested at

How can I create a simple index.html file which lists all files/directories?

We use a web server that does not allow directory listing. There is a specific directory I would like to allow listing of. How can make a simple HTML file that will contain the contents of this

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