Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 16:59:27 +0100 From: Mikolaj Kucharski <mikolaj@kucharski.name> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, Enache Adrian <3n4ch3@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Thanx for the kqemu patches; some notes about NetBSD/OpenBSD guests Message-ID: <20090531155927.GF16517@x40.openbsd.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20090531144133.GA14007@triton.kn-bremen.de> References: <20090530205152.GA7702@triton.kn-bremen.de> <38008E46-FD5F-4992-A824-E7F5CFBD5475@web.de> <20090531144133.GA14007@triton.kn-bremen.de>
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Is there anything new for OpenBSD which I could help test? Patches in OpenBSD CVS are for kqemu 1.3.0pre11, version 1.4.0pre1 doesn't work. References 1. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/emulators/kqemu/ On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:41:33PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:29:28AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > > Hi Jürgen, > Hi! > > > > Am 30.05.2009 um 22:51 schrieb Juergen Lock: > > > > > I just committed Jan's kqemu patch series to the FreeBSD kqemu port > > > (yes FreeBSD is another one of those `left behind' OSes where kvm > > > doesn't really work yet...) - and I also committed an old NetBSD/ > > > OpenBSD > > > guest kqemu patch, > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-11/msg00125.html > > > and then played with a NetBSD guest in qemu 0.10.5 a little, where I > > > found out a few things: > > > > > > 1. A few times I even got NetBSD 5.0/i386 running with -kernel-kqemu > > > now, > > > tho a few other times I also got guest processes segfaulting etc. > > > `Regualr' kqemu seems stable now tho. > > > > Thanks for the pointer. I've pushed it to a pick-up branch for now to > > facilitate testing. Did you test non-BSD guests, too? > > > Oh yes I tested Linux too (and FreeBSD), and I tested a Windows 7 beta > guest that I had installed a while ago more out of curiosity than > anything else, and that one seemed to bluescreen a little less than > it used to also... (it usually only bluescreen at boot and sometimes > at shutdown, once it gets past the boot stage it keeps running, altho > slowly. Oh and -kernel-kqemu seems to always make it bluescreen so > only `regular' kqemu is useful for that guest.) > > Everything else I tested seemed to still run like it used to, the > Linux guests even _appeared_ to run a little faster than they used to, > possibly because of the added verr/verw and lar/lsl handling in Jan's > patches... > > > I noticed that Adrian has patches for OpenBSD host support in their > > ports CVS repository, as pointed out by Mikolaj. > > There appears to be some FreeBSD code in-tree though - so, is the > > above patch the only one you've queued, or do you have host patches as > > well that we could push "upstream"? > > I have a few more, as you can see on cvsweb: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/kqemu-kmod-devel/files/ > (patch-tssworkaround is only applied for FreeBSD < 7.1 since later > versions no longer have the issue it works around; look in that patch's > commitlogs if you want links to the gory details...) > > Cheers, > Juergen -- best regards q#
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