Re: [Qemu-discuss] Install multiple forks of QEMU

[Stephen Bates]

Hi All

Thanks for the replies. The --prefix solution worked a treat. I now have 
upstream, NVMe and RISCV forks installed and can switch between them or even 
run them concurrently. 

Cheers

Stephen

> On Sep 8, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 8 September 2016 at 13:32, Donald R Laster Jr <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Stephen,
>> 
>>  When building the various software packages use the following configuration 
>> --prefix like this:
>> 
>>      --prefix=/opt/qemu/qemu-${VARIANT}
> 
> If you're just doing local testing (where running QEMU
> from the command line is sufficient) you can also just
> build the various configs in different build directories[*]
> and run them directly from the build directory without
> installing them at all.
> 
> [*] that is,
> mkdir -p build/foo && cd build/foo && ../../configure [options]
> will configure for an out-of-tree build, which you then
> build with 'make -C build/foo'. This is usually a better
> idea than running configure and building directly in the
> root of the QEMU source tree anyway, but it's particularly
> handy if you're building more than one configuration.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM