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Big-Endian Emulation

Posted: 23. Aug 2011, 15:35
by anndruu12
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.

Re: Big-Endian Emulation

Posted: 23. Aug 2011, 18:43
by Leak
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...