Qemu+DistCC=Much better compiling.

[darkscout]

I'm not an expert at Qemu, and I've followed a few tutorials but can't seem to get network interfaces up....

I have a quad core desktop that has all of the 'idle' functions replaced by the plug (so I can power it down and save electricity). It theoretically should be possible to throw together a nice Qemu ARM machine and install distcc on everything to speed up compile times.

[ruidc]

Cross-compiling from Linux in a VM (i386 virtualbox) as per the wiki worked fine and fast for me. can't comment on Qemu, beyond it seeming to be non-trivial to set up.

[mgillespie]

Have you tried this:

http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/