From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 01:11:53 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DF777A9 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68D909C9 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:11:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-61.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.61]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t0S1BppT026249 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:11:51 -0600 Message-ID: <54C838CE.7040502@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:18:06 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: Is QEMU working/reliable under .... References: <54C7C62A.5030605@hiwaay.net> <20150127210422.GA27921@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <20150127210422.GA27921@slackbox.erewhon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:11:53 -0000 On 01/27/15 15:04, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:08:58AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> .... FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5, qemu-0.11.1_18, kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11_12 ? I >> have tried w/ kqemu loaded & unloaded (recommended online), w/ >> -nographic, w/ -vga std, etc. No love. All I want to do is run a WinXP >> 32bit VM &/or a 64-bit Win7 VM from my desktop (xfce-4.10_7, xorg-7.7_1, >> xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_5) :-/ .... Several online sites imply that it >> works OK, 1 specifically w/ FreeBSD 9 no less. Any clues appreciated, >> any more info gladly provided .... > This version is *ancient*. I would suggest trying qemu-devel instead, because > that provides qemu-2.2.0. Last time I tried it 0.11 with or without qkemu > crashed a lot. > > According to the website, qemu version 0.11 and up do not support kqemu > anymore (see http://wiki.qemu.org/KQEMU), so you don't need that anymore. > > In time (and if your processor is new enough to have “extended page tables”) I > guess qemu on FreeBSD could be replaced by the bhyve hypervisor that is now in > 10.x and is being developed further in HEAD. Currently bhyve can load FreeBSD, > OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux guests. Support to run windoze as a guest will come > in the future. > > Roland OK, I have qemu-devel compiled & installed, kqemu unloaded from the kernel, & (hopefully) a build of a VM underway, command-line: qemu -cdrom ../../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 256 -boot d -cpu athlon -vga std -nographic -no-acpi -localtime, w/ qemu softlinked to qemu-system-x86_64 in /usr/local/bin. How long is this expected to take :-) ? TIA & thx for everything so far .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.