From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 20:43:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34377106567A for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from gwyn.kn-bremen.de (gwyn.kn-bremen.de [212.63.36.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E0A8FC21 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:43:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by gwyn.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 4F0A7191A24; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:43:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8LKePfC082008; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:40:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.6/Submit) id m8LKePSk082007; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:40:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:40:25 +0200 To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20080921204025.GA81055@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Mail-Followup-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Subject: qemu svn r5281 on FreeBSD - slow usb, vmwarevga, screen updates... X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:43:20 -0000 Hi! I've been playing with qemu svn on FreeBSD again (new experimental emulators/qemu-devel port update here: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080921.patch ), and want to note a few things: 1. usb is still absymally slow, especially emulated disks (disk:imagefile) and nics, both read/receive at about 30 KBytes/s here. Is anyone working on this? I also got a report that its slow on Linux hosts too, so this problem doesn't appear to be FreeBSD specific... 2. -vmwarevga _seems_ to be less broken when run with 16 bpp, only 24 bpp seems to get the fifo errors that I posted about last time: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-08/msg00893.html (maybe also the patch I posted there is only needed when running the guest with 24 bpp.) vmmouse seems to be broken too tho, the guest acts as if the mouse is stuck in the bottom right corner. (maybe I didn't actually test this the last time, or it has something to do with the newer guest that I used this time which also has a newer xorg version among other things, sidux-2008-03-ourea-pre1-kde-lite-i386-200809142136.iso announcement including mirror list is here: http://sidux.com/Article450.html ) The guest xorg crashes with -kernel-kqemu also still happen. Oh and that guest tries to use vmmouse by default if run with -vmwarevga, to disable it you can boot to runlevel 3 (add a 3 to the grub line), su, change vmmouse to mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then do init 5 to start X. 3. The screen update problem I mentioned seems to be intermittent, sometimes I see it, sometimes not, and its also possible it only affects the emulated vga console (vga=0 with linux guests.) Sometimes when I see it there are also partwise screen updates, like I see only some of the lines scrolling. Whenever it happens, moving the mouse over another window fixes it for a few seconds, until it happens again. Oh and the guest keeps running all the time, only the screen doesn't update correctly when it happens... 4. There's one good news: completion in the monitor is back to working order! :) (I suspect because of the qemu_strdup fix.) Thanx, Juergen