From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 15:59:55 2008 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 418B11065684 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:59:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anthony@codemonkey.ws) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0E08FC1B for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anthony@codemonkey.ws) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so146031ana.13 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.42.17 with SMTP id p17mr3152609anp.20.1222097512486; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squirrel.codemonkey.ws (cpe-24-28-0-183.austin.res.rr.com [24.28.0.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c4sm551452anc.28.2008.09.22.08.31.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48D7BA2F.0@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:30:55 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org References: <20080921204025.GA81055@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080921204025.GA81055@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu svn r5281 on FreeBSD - slow usb, vmwarevga, screen updates... 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, 22 Sep 2008 15:59:55 -0000 Juergen Lock wrote: > Hi! > > I've been playing with qemu svn on FreeBSD again (new experimental > emulators/qemu-devel port update here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080921.patch > ), and want to note a few things: > Are all of these things regressions and if so, have you bisected? Regards, Anthony Liguori > 1. usb is still absymally slow, especially emulated disks (disk:imagefile) > and nics, both read/receive at about 30 KBytes/s here. Is anyone working > on this? I also got a report that its slow on Linux hosts too, so this > problem doesn't appear to be FreeBSD specific... > > 2. -vmwarevga _seems_ to be less broken when run with 16 bpp, only 24 > bpp seems to get the fifo errors that I posted about last time: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-08/msg00893.html > (maybe also the patch I posted there is only needed when running the guest > with 24 bpp.) vmmouse seems to be broken too tho, the guest acts as if > the mouse is stuck in the bottom right corner. (maybe I didn't actually > test this the last time, or it has something to do with the newer guest > that I used this time which also has a newer xorg version among other > things, > sidux-2008-03-ourea-pre1-kde-lite-i386-200809142136.iso > announcement including mirror list is here: > http://sidux.com/Article450.html > ) The guest xorg crashes with -kernel-kqemu also still happen. > > Oh and that guest tries to use vmmouse by default if run with > -vmwarevga, to disable it you can boot to runlevel 3 (add a 3 to the > grub line), su, change vmmouse to mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then do > init 5 to start X. > > 3. The screen update problem I mentioned seems to be intermittent, > sometimes I see it, sometimes not, and its also possible it only affects > the emulated vga console (vga=0 with linux guests.) Sometimes when I see > it there are also partwise screen updates, like I see only some of the > lines scrolling. Whenever it happens, moving the mouse over another > window fixes it for a few seconds, until it happens again. Oh and the > guest keeps running all the time, only the screen doesn't update correctly > when it happens... > > 4. There's one good news: completion in the monitor is back to working > order! :) (I suspect because of the qemu_strdup fix.) > > Thanx, > Juergen > > >