From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 21:37:27 2009 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 E44A6106566B; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CAC8FC15; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 734101E005AB; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:37:26 +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 n1SLaK1C064642; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:20 +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 n1SLaKun064641; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:20 +0100 To: Gary Jennejohn Message-ID: <20090228213620.GA64626@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Gary Jennejohn , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org References: <20090225201550.3d3032b5@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090228171520.GA56888@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20090228201650.064c0ee4@ernst.jennejohn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090228201650.064c0ee4@ernst.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: testing qemu svn r6636 on FreeBSD; future of qemu on FreeBSD... 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: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:37:28 -0000 On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:16:50PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:15:20 +0100 > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:15:50PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:19:33 +0100 > > > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > > > > You could try a few things: > > > > a) the same with kqemu (userland), in case its a tcg bug (or indeed a > > > > timeout; remember to rebuild qemu in case you built it without the > > > > kqemu knob enabled or otherwise kqemu won't get used), and also > > > > b) another time with -kernel-kqemu in case its a tcg bug affecting > > > > guest kernel code (altho of course in both cases kqemu can cause its > > > > own kind of failures, even more so with amd64 guests...) > > > > > > > > > > Neither of these work. The only way I can get past loading the kernel > > > is with -no-kqemu. > > > > > > I still see the segmentation fault in Yast.call. Now I know that it's > > > in line 486, if that's of any interest. > > > > > > Sorry, I'm not going to invest any more time in this. > > > > Thanx. Can someone else verify that kqemu still works on FreeBSD-current? > > > > I went back to openSUSE with the standard qemu-devel. I found that I > could (usually) boot w/o problems if I put -no-acpi on the CL. > > Right now I have openSUSE runngin pretty well. It's nearly as fast as > on my old (genuine) IBM X31 laptop :) > > > It is possible that you got hit by the kqemu tsc vs smp problem, i.e. > > passing `notsc' to the guest kernel or forcing qemu onto one cpu > > (cpuset -l 0 qemu ...) may have helped there, sorry I should have thought > > of that earlier... > > > > I just tried these suggestions (with the standard qemu-devel) and they > don't seem to do any harm :-P > ..but they didn't help either? (i.e. w/o -no-acpi) > > Also, did I get that right that this opensuse 10.3 install worked with > > the original qemu-devel port (without kqemu)? So we do seem to have a > > regression here... (thats a 20080620 qemu svn snapshot, for the folks > > on the qemu list.) > > > > See above. > > Now I'm thinking about giving the patched qemu-devel another try, since > I've found some workarounds for booting. I'll see whether I can at least > boot into the installed openSUSE using it. Thanx, :) Juergen