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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:11:05 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Building Kyua inside qemu mips VM
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I run qemu-devel, and:

adrian      3361 101.2  9.7 639416 381572  1  S+    9:13PM  986:02.93
qemu-system-mips -M malta -kernel /tftpboot/kernel.MALTA -hda
../fullroot-malta.img -hdb ../malta-swap.img -nographic -m 256



-adrian


On 15 February 2015 at 11:10, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> It should just work by default. are you using qemu-devel ? If not, you
> should be.
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
> On 15 February 2015 at 11:08, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Can you to https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation the command-line
>> flags to QEMU
>> that allow usage of this NIC?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, it does:
>>>
>>> le0: <AMD PCnet-PCI> irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
>>> le0: Lazy allocation of 0x20 bytes rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x120
>>> le0: 16 receive buffers, 4 transmit buffers
>>> le0: bpf attached
>>> le0: Ethernet address: 52:54:00:12:34:56
>>>
>>> (I'm doing a buildworld right now inside it.)
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15 February 2015 at 10:55, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> > Also, can the MALTA kernel config support any network drivers compatible
>>> > with QEMU?
>>> > I didn't see anything compiled into the default kernel config, but I
>>> > might
>>> > have missed it.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Craig
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> Have you tried any of these options to cross-build ports:
>>> >>
>>> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo
>>> >>
>>> >> Those options look complicated, but workable.
>>> >> --
>>> >> Craig
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ... ask the ports people to support cross-building as a "thing" one
>>> >>> can
>>> >>> do?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> All of those ports you've mentioned should be a perfectly good target
>>> >>> for cross-building; I've done them before individually.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> -adrian
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 15 February 2015 at 10:23, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>> > Adrian,
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > I am continuing on the work started in the Hackathon which
>>> >>> > you organized in January.  I have this Jenkins job which
>>> >>> > builds a UFS image built for mips using the MALTA kernel config:
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD_mips32_be/
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > I am using this invocation of QEMU to boot the image with 256MB RAM:
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation#Configuring_QEMU
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > I am now trying to build /usr/ports/devel/kyua
>>> >>> > inside the VM, so that I can do "cd /usr/tests ; kyua test" to run
>>> >>> > all the tests.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > However, building kyua and all its dependencies (atf, sqlite, lua,
>>> >>> > lutok)
>>> >>> > is taking a really long time inside this VM, on the order of many
>>> >>> > hours.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Is there something I can do to boost performance so I can at least
>>> >>> > build
>>> >>> > kyua faster in this VM?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > --
>>> >>> > Craig
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>
>>



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