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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Subject: Re: Offloading to a VM
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 22:50:02 +0200
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> I think we can leave this concern aside as a first approximation:

Ah interesting. The only architecture other than arm I'm interested in
is riscv. The riscv qemu port doesn't include a syscall emulation. But
I guess the riscv ecosystem still has a long way to go...

> A derivation is essentially the file name of a =E2=80=9Cbuilder=E2=80=9D =
along with its
> argv and the needed dependencies.  For a given derivation, the hook
> would roughly run:

>   qemu-arm /gnu/store/=E2=80=A6-builder arg1 arg2 =E2=80=A6

> Hope this clarifies things!

Yes this does clarify things. Thanks!