From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 19:04:22 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 D6EBC106566C for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from subhraveti@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CA48FC17 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from subhraveti@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so18673wah.27 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:04:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to:references :subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; bh=gbDT26SxmeXTWDKYMeukno/5wNLa9MzZbQZlv9Crqr8=; b=ioe1uTgUH/r98VUZUT8UYxywPBfY+GZBThetnpoNgBMsY/sjaAmRHNgPZ82MiBep2E iw7V1lRqg+gexGoQPbkSreTvWFru0t+AcGVEcufLAwbcgJM+oNVLUhf0FXbwIrxMcfHh 8WcLHAElLxGVsBn92UvbW7PKBYUk56iQbrX0w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority :x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=vlNQk+pxtKsqMze4ihGHHjU//vkKA56KYVUgRSlZs95V4P/zMt8TebDLGXiHXK4xfl b4lXaBscYdDnn8N1MUsCsdBE2p9XMMecSeq2j7VTtVagztdsvWoYUo4fgVcYIZBtNOMy epcwRFkFd1oIe/pI/DCu+1vAQsR4wBwubcCn8= Received: by 10.114.88.1 with SMTP id l1mr3289806wab.9.1234983860628; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from DineshThinkpad (75-54-218-43.lightspeed.mlpsca.sbcglobal.net [75.54.218.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q20sm416833pog.22.2009.02.18.11.04.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:04:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00d001c991fb$b2582630$8301a8c0@DineshThinkpad> From: "Dinesh Subhraveti" To: References: <00a201c990ba$078763c0$8301a8c0@DineshThinkpad> <20090217225655.GA12991@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:04:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 Subject: Re: qemu bsd-user 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: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:04:23 -0000 > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:41:40PM -0800, "Dinesh Subhraveti" wrote: >> This may not be the right place for a newbie question, but venturing >> anyway with some hope... >> >> I am interested in the Qemu bsd user emulation, but can't find a copy of >> Qemu source with bsd-user that I can build. The mainline Qemu trunk >> doesn't directly build on FreeBSD and the qemu ports in >> /usr/ports/emulators/ don't have bsd-user. > > Well, I got bsd-user to build a while ago, > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-December/005579.html > (it still builds in my latest snapshot, > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-February/005650.html > ) but it is entirely untested, and as said in the first post it looks like > at least the i386 (host) case needs someone with linker script fu to look > at > it before it can actually work. If you want to help you are more than > welcome tho... :) (you are actually the first one to ask about bsd-user > on FreeBSD that I have seen!) Thanks for the pointers. I wish I could help or at least help myself for now. I have an upcoming research deadline before which I need to figure this magic out... Regards,