Install qemu on WSLĬongrats! You've finished your first step.
You need to reboot your computer when prompted. In case you cannot find PowerShell: it can be started by right clicking the Windows button on your start menu, and select PowerShell (run as administrator), then input the lines mentioned in the link above.įor the distribution, I prefer Ubuntu, and I suggest you to use Ubuntu here so that you will not encounter any strange problems. Install WSLįirst, you need to install WSL. However, since QEMU does not require 32 bits support (and neither xv6) to work, this is not a problem for this project.
#Qemu on windows 32 bit#
If there is anything I would like to complain about WSL, then that will be the limitation of not able to run 32 bit softwares on WSL. However, WSL is officially supported by Microsoft and several Linux distributions, so the performance on WSL is just great - not so many hassles comparing to Wine. Since this is not supported by Microsoft, there are tons of problems with compatibilities. In fact, for years, people were trying to run things inversely - write Windows runtime on Linux (or other Unix/Unix-Like systems), and that is what we call "Wine", which stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". It added a Linux runtime on Windows so that people can just run most Linux softwares on Windows, without using Virtual Machines therefore, WSL provided a great integration for Linux runtime on Windows, and better performance than traditional VMs. WSL is actually a Linux runtime on Windows, which started not very long ago. Though I believe there is a way to run QEMU and xv6 directly on Windows using mingw or other compilers, I believe it would be a less hassle if use WSL.
You know what? Run xv6 is not a hard thing on Windows - since Windows is now supporting Windows Subsystem for Linux, it is possible to run Linux app on Windows. Run xv6 on Windows, manual by Xiangqun Zhang (zhxq).
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