From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 11:52:05 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 EBCF31065673 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538CE8FC17 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:52:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2IBq3aT012825; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:52:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m2IBq0Ih012824; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:52:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:52:00 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200803181152.m2IBq0Ih012824@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, d.hill@yournetplus.com, rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-emulation User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:52:04 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: qemu coredumps on RELENG_7 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: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:52:06 -0000 D Hill wrote: > Rick C. Petty wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > > > > > Definitely, > > > > kldload aio > > > > before running qemu. > > > > > > Thank you, that seems to solve the problem indeed. > > > Is that documented somewhere? It's not in the manpage. > > > I think it should be in the manpage ... would have > > > saved me quite some time. > > > > Nope. It should be, or at least qemu should fail to start or at least > > print a message instead of just randomly failing. Definitely. > > I ran into the same problem and only after spending hours trying to get it > > to work did I remember to kldload aio. > > I don't know if this applies. However, I found this in > /usr/ports/UPDATING: > > 20070206: It applies, but I think someone who installs qemu now isn't supposed to read UPDATING all the way back to February 2007. In fact, for fresh installs you should not have to read UPDATING _at_ _all_. Important information like this should be in the manual page, and -- as Rick pointed out -- the failure mode is pathetic. It should print a useful error message right at the start instead of randomly failing later. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung." -- Thomas Funke