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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:17:54 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Jon Noack" <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
To:        "Roland Smith" <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject:   Re: QEMU
Message-ID:  <1668.192.168.1.9.1102990674.squirrel@192.168.1.9>
In-Reply-To: <20041213214445.GA43325@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <41BDE764.50600@fer.hr> <20041213214445.GA43325@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:03:00PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a
>> knoppix live-cd from iso-image with:
>
> I tried to build it from ports on amd64 but the compiler segfaulted. :-(
> So it might be interesting to know what platform you're running on. From
> the compiler output I could see a lot of size mismatch warnings, i.e. 64
> bit issues.

Works fine for me on i386.

>> qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -boot d
>>
>> It always reboots the computer (no core-dump, no panic, just reboot -
>> and that's as user-started process, not under root). Same thing under
>> X11 or console.
>>
>> I've never used qemu before, so it could be my fault :)
>
> I've used qemu on Linux before (that's how I tried FreeBSD first), and
> it ran fine. However, there are at least two qemu binaries built, one
> that uses the hosts MMU, and one that has software MMU
> emulation. I'd use the last one if I were you. I never could get the one
> that uses the host MMU to work.

The host MMU version (aka qemu-fast) is Linux-only as far as I know.  The
FreeBSD port doesn't build it at the very least.

Jon



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