Re: Binary downloads of QEMU for Mac OS X

[Network– & System– Administration from NeuroScience of Zhéxué–Cloud]

Dear Peter,

thank you for this information.
But I am not using homebrew on my MACs - so how can I get this?
Best regards


Matthias

Von meinem iPad gesendet

> Am 22.06.2020 um 12:34 schrieb Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 00:36, G 3 <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed on the page https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac you deleted the
>> download section. I actually needed qemu-system-i386 today.
> 
> Yes; the download links were to random mediafire download URLs
> (ie not trustable, not something we would want to imply to users
> that they should be downloading and running) and were also for
> ancient versions of QEMU (so not being updated or maintained).
> 
>> What
>> would it take to have an office download for QEMU binaries for Mac OS X?
> 
> The project doesn't provide binary downloads; this would be
> a lot of effort for minimal gain. For users who don't want to
> do a full-compile-from-source we recommend using homebrew
> (https://www.qemu.org/download/#macos), which is the equivalent
> for OSX of "get binary packages from your distro" for Linux.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>