From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 1 23:24:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6ABD106566B; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:24:49 +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 8E5178FC16; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:24:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 180401E005D6; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:24:48 +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 n21NDGb3095935; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:13:16 +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 n21NDGnT095934; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:13:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:13:16 +0100 To: Gary Jennejohn Message-ID: <20090301231316.GA95918@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> <20090228213620.GA64626@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20090301185709.60194bce@ernst.jennejohn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090301185709.60194bce@ernst.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:38:42 +0000 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-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:24:50 -0000 On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:57:09PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:20 +0100 > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:16:50PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > {snip old stuff] > > > > 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) > > > > Yes it did. It boots without -no-apci and with notpc just fine. > You mean notsc, right...? > > > > > > 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. > > > > OK, the patched qemu-devel can boot the already installed openSUSE. > > I tried it with and without kernel-kqemu and both worked as long as > I booted with notpc. > ..also notsc here? :) > Can't explain why the installation failed, though. OK, thanx, Juergen