From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 21:10:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42361065675 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:10:23 +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 4157C8FC24 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by gwyn.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 665041920CD; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:49:18 +0100 (CET) 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 mB4KkC6P016854; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:46:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.6/Submit) id mB4KkC0k016853; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:46:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:46:12 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200812042046.mB4KkC0k016853@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: yanefbsd@gmail.com X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0812041105h43cf6586r5092e234a6350310@mail.gmail.com> References: <5f67a8c40812021718i4cc225fem5b02a448702ec606@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0812040327w7c92826i64c6073a453d65ef@mail.gmail.com> <5f67a8c40812040952u1364563awcfd493695e7fea7c@mail.gmail.com> Organization: home X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:17:28 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:10:23 -0000 In article <7d6fde3d0812041105h43cf6586r5092e234a6350310@mail.gmail.com> you write: >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> >>> Are you running the ports version, or a different version, and/or are >>> you using kqemu (I've heard this was broken, in the past)? My group at >>> Cisco has several issues with older versions of qemu for PPC and when >>> we applied patches, it improved support greatly in some cases, and >>> introduced bugs in other cases =\. >>> >>> I'd definitely hit the devel list for QEMU and see what they say while >>> you're waiting for a more substantial reply here. >> >> I'm using the ports version. I am using kqemu... although I can try without >> the kernel module later today. >> >> How out-of-date is the port? > >1. Try without kqemu :) (or at least rebuild it, then disable it if >you continue to run into problems). >2. emulators/qemu is the latest stable, but there are typically a >number of changes floating out in the devel branch >(emulators/qemu-devel) that might be of interest to you: > >[root@optimus /store]# grep -r ^PORTVERSION /usr/ports/emulators/qemu* >/usr/ports/emulators/qemu/Makefile:PORTVERSION= 0.9.1 >/usr/ports/emulators/qemu-devel/Makefile:PORTVERSION= 0.9.1s.20080620 Yes, qemu-devel is worth a try. I also post experimental port updates on -emulation once in a while that bring the qemu-devel port to more recent svn snapshots, like here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-November/005530.html Oh and btw -kernel-kqemu is known to be broken with FreeBSD/amd64 guests, I was still able to boot 7.1-BETA2-amd64-livefs.iso into fixit->cdrom and try a few things in there using `regular' (userland) kqemu and my latest qemu-devel snapshot tho. HTH, Juergen