Big-Endian Emulation
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anndruu12
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Big-Endian Emulation
Hi. I am looking for software that I can run on windows, to emulate big-endian architecture for the purpose of testing software. Preferably using gcc. Is this possible with virtualbox? Thanks a lot for the help.
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Leak
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- Joined: 31. Mar 2009, 13:00
- Primary OS: MS Windows 7
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- Guest OSses: Debian Testing, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008 R2
Re: Big-Endian Emulation
Since VirtualBox uses the existing CPU to run it's virtual machines directly instead of emulating a processor you can only run Intel (i.e. little endian) code on it. If you want an emulator that emulates a big endian processor your best bet is probably QEMU, but of course having to emulate a different CPU makes it an order of magnitude or two slower...