QEMU - A Crucial Building Block in Digital Preservation Strategies
| Main Authors: | Suchodoletz, Dirk von, Rechert, Klaus, Tchayep, Achille Nana |
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| Other Authors: | Müller, Wolfgang, Pétrot, Frederic |
| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2011
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/15406/1/qemu-in-ltp.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/15406/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Emulation as long-term preservation strategy depends on usable, reliable and sustainable emulators to preserve old or obsolete original digital environments. The most common approach to achieve this is to preserve the hardware layer of the different computer architectures. The open source project QEMU is in many ways a digital preservation tool that the community of memory institutions depends on. The requirements for emulation in preservation differ from those that exist for most virtualization tasks. QEMU has to bridge a widening gap between past and current digital environments by keeping the emulated hardware constant and reliable over time. To ensure reliability special test suites should be run on updated versions of QEMU. A number of software and unit tests could be run totally automated using the QEMU VNC and monitor interfaces on prepared system images of all preservation relevant original environments. QEMU as a cooperative endeavor should extend its user base into the digital preservation domain. It could bring financial) support and thus foster more sustainability.