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Support qemu 4.1.0 for non-instrumented binaries (-Q) #43
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This PR is to update the version of qemu used in non-instrumented binaries from qemu 2.10.0 to qemu 4.1.0.
This does break ease of building though as qemu now depends on libcapstone-dev >= 3. I had issues with Debian jessie packages for libcapstone and libcapstone2-dev being too far out of date. I solved this with using the stretch debs for libcapstone3-dev and libcapstone. See Line 148 of the build script for a few comments and the added dependency check.
In terms of performance, before on qemu 2.10.0 on my laptop I was seeing ~12-15 executions per second with fuzzing readelf. With qemu 4.1.0 I am seeing ~40-45 executions per second again with readelf. This probably should be tested more however my initial tests seem good.
I tested building and running on Arch Linux as well as building on a fully up-to-date Debian Jessie.
Let me know if you need anything else from me and thank you for this project!