Suppose I have a MIPS elf binary (meaning someone cross compiled/compiled on MIPS a MIPS linux executable)
Are there any linux distros that are compiled to run on mips architecture that could perhaps run the executable? I've looked around, but all I can find is linux-mips. Even better would be if the distro was already installed to a VM disk file, and you could just download it.
Is there any guaranteed way to run the MIPS elf on a non MIPS distro? Like using some qemu setup or something? (By "guaranteed" I mean if it runs in a MIPs distro then it should run in the emulator without a doubt, and that ALL functionality is absolutely implemented in the emulator, so that whatever would occur (userland specific obviously) in the MIPS distro will also occur in the emulator, so that I can have some confidence that it will work properly).
Lastly, if I wanted to debug MIPS, but I don't understand it all that well, is there any kind of learning tool that would be really good for understanding what MIPS is doing besides a VM? Here's what I have in mind-using a tool, you could attach to either a MIPS compiled elf or a x86, and as you walk through the instructions in the executable, you can see a conversion from the format of the executable in control of the debugger to the format of your choice. A not so good alternative that would still work would be where you could past any MIPS instruction into a text box, and see another text box with the equivalent x86 instruction, or vice versa.