Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:03:19 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qemu-cvs FreeBSD guests, cirrus, vmwarevga emulation - experimental qemu-devel FreeBSD port update available for testing Message-ID: <20080108180319.GA15267@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080107223456.GA20082@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <20080106224450.GA76738@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20080107223456.GA20082@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:56PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:44:50PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Yesterday (so, just before the qemu version commit...) I prepared a > > FreeBSD qemu-devel port update using the 2008-01-05_05 snapshot, > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080105.patch > > and I already got a report of xorg 7.3 using the cirrus emulation in a > > FreeBSD 6.3 RC guest crashing with -kernel-kqemu, and hanging without it, > > which he said worked with the previous qemu cvs snapshot thats still in > > ports (2007-08-02_05.) -vmwarevga worked, but still had the old problem > > of causing the ne2kpci nic not to attach (ed0.) The i82557b nic can be > > used as a workaround (fxp0, its faster anyway), but I just verified with a > > FreeBSD 6.2 guest (you can use e.g. a FreeSBIE livecd iso, use `su' if > > you want to edit its /etc/X11/xorg.conf, after that exit the root shell > > and run `startx'; I gave qemu -m 256) that -vmwarevga also still causes > > the es1370 soundcard not to attach and I don't know a workaround for > > that. Also, still slirp causes qemu to crash on amd64 hosts when just > > trying to access a webpage from inside a guest. > > Update for the cirrus problem: He just said that in fact it also occured > with the 2007-08-02_05 snapshot, so at least the problem is older. > > > > So, can anyone reproduce any of these problems on e.g. a Linux host? > > Also, more testing of the FreeBSD port update is certainly needed, also > > using non-FreeBSD guests, non-i386/amd64 targets, and the new -disk option > > (which I didn't yet test at all, it should e.g. allow scsi drives to be > > emulated, tho very likely FreeBSD host support for the scsi passthru > > feature still needs to be done, and io via qemu is probably too slow to > > burn a dvd anyway. :) > > > > Thanx, > > Juergen > > > > PS: I just see that 0.9.1 is actually out now, so I guess I should prepare > > an update to the qemu port instead, but not today... (and testing this one > > is still useful.) > > Ok I have a 0.9.1 update now that currently building on tb3, please help > testing: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-0.9.1.patch Please redownload, at least if you want to use qemu-system-arm -old-param, there was a break missing. (I also removed a bogus patch with no functional change.) tb went thru btw, at least for current... Thanx, Juergen
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