From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 6 02:57:48 2007 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 7B2BD16A41A for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:57:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2630013C467 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id l762veiW045202; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:57:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:57:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: John Nielsen Message-ID: <20070806025738.GH77822@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070805215329.07f0a062@vixen42> <200708052253.10904.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200708052253.10904.lists@jnielsen.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qemu issues 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: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:57:48 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 05), John Nielsen said: > On Sunday 05 August 2007, Zane C.B. wrote: > > Any time I've used qemu recently, it exits with a 140 and prints out > > "Bad system call". > > > > Any ideas? > > Don't forget to load the aio kernel module on your host. Wouldn't returning ENOSYS be a lost nicer to the calling process than signaling SIGSYS? I always think of SIGSYS as a hint that you're trying to run a binary from a completely different OS, rather than just trying to use a valid syscall that just hasn't been enabled. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com