Qemu. Mips cpu virtualization

About MIPS architecture

Download initrd.gz and vmlinux-3.2.0-4-4kc-malta from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-mips/current/images/malta/netboot/

# install
qemu-system-mips -M malta -kernel vmlinux-3.2.0-4-4kc-malta -initrd initrd.gz \
 -hda debian74_mips.img  -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0" -nographic

# boot
qemu-system-mips -M malta -kernel vmlinux-3.2.0-4-4kc-malta \
 -hda debian74_mips.img -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0" -nographic

On guest host:

uname -a
# Linux debianmips 3.2.0-4-4kc-malta #1 Debian 3.2.54-2 mips GNU/Linux

cat /proc/cpuinfo 
# system type  : MIPS Malta
# processor  : 0
# cpu model  : MIPS 24Kc V0.0  FPU V0.0

mips hello world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#MIPS_assembly_language):

00400640 <main>:
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  400640: 27bdffe0  addiu sp,sp,-32
  400644: afbf001c  sw ra,28(sp)
  400648: afbe0018  sw s8,24(sp)
  40064c: 03a0f021  move s8,sp
    printf("Hello world!\n");
  400650: 3c020040  lui v0,0x40
  400654: 24440810  addiu a0,v0,2064
  400658: 0c100140  jal 400500 <puts@plt>
  40065c: 00200825  move at,at
    return 0;
  400660: 00001021  move v0,zero
}
  400664: 03c0e821  move sp,s8
  400668: 8fbf001c  lw ra,28(sp)
  40066c: 8fbe0018  lw s8,24(sp)
  400670: 27bd0020  addiu sp,sp,32
  400674: 03e00008  jr ra
  400678: 00200825  move at,at
  40067c: 00200825  move at,at

i386 hello world:

0804840c <main>:
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
 804840c: 55                    push   ebp
 804840d: 89 e5                 mov    ebp,esp
 804840f: 83 e4 f0              and    esp,0xfffffff0
 8048412: 83 ec 10              sub    esp,0x10
    printf("Hello world!\n");
 8048415: c7 04 24 c0 84 04 08  mov    DWORD PTR [esp],0x80484c0
 804841c: e8 cf fe ff ff        call   80482f0 <puts@plt>
    return 0;
 8048421: b8 00 00 00 00        mov    eax,0x0
}
 8048426: c9                    leave  
 8048427: c3                    ret    
 8048428: 90                    nop
 8048429: 90                    nop
 804842a: 90                    nop
 804842b: 90                    nop
 804842c: 90                    nop
 804842d: 90                    nop
 804842e: 90                    nop
 804842f: 90                    nop

x64 hello world:

00000000004004fd <main>:
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  4004fd: 55                    push   rbp
  4004fe: 48 89 e5              mov    rbp,rsp
    printf("Hello world!\n");
  400501: bf a4 05 40 00        mov    edi,0x4005a4
  400506: e8 d5 fe ff ff        call   4003e0 <puts@plt>
    return 0;
  40050b: b8 00 00 00 00        mov    eax,0x0
}
  400510: 5d                    pop    rbp
  400511: c3                    ret    
  400512: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00  nop    WORD PTR cs:[rax+rax*1+0x0]
  400519: 00 00 00 
  40051c: 0f 1f 40 00           nop    DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]

Instructions for other archs with qemu:
https://gmplib.org/~tege/qemu.html