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QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

This build is only for the user-mode static version of the binaries.

The primary use-case is to run alien achitecture (aarch64)
docker containers on x86_64.

This package installs all compatible qemu binfmt descriptions
into /usr/share/binfmts

If you have installed (and activated in /etc/rc.d/)
the binfmt-support service, they will be loaded at machine start up.

Then you should be able to run all compatible docker images through
qemu emulation transparently.

/*
modprobe binfmt_misc
mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
update-binfmts --import
update-binfmts --enable

docker run --platform=linux/arm64 --rm  -it \
aclemons/slackware:current echo passed || echo failed

*/

See also:

https://ihlenfeldt.net/binfmt-misc/
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst
https://twdev.blog/2024/01/docker_multi_platform/

This requires: device-tree-compiler, qemu, python3-meson-opt

Maintained by: Lockywolf
Keywords: qemu,emulation,container,docker
ChangeLog: qemu-static