Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:00:34 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is QEMU working/reliable under .... Message-ID: <54C80A82.2000405@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20150127210422.GA27921@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <54C7C62A.5030605@hiwaay.net> <20150127210422.GA27921@slackbox.erewhon.home>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 CPU is AMD Jaguar Kabini, I would guess that'll do in time. Do I need to remove qemu when I install qemu-devel ? Does qemu-devel include already compiled up executables or is it a ports effort (no problema, just curious) ? I was a bit surprised at how old the qemu was, OpenBSD supposedly has newer, & I thought they were always behind FreeBSD for security .... Why is the qemu moribund ? -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?54C80A82.2000405>