From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 08:48:01 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 4CEBF106564A for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFBE8FC1F for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2H8lwED029303; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:47:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m2H8lwrf029302; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:47:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:47:58 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200803170847.m2H8lwrf029302@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200803170814.m2H8EHdh027983@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-emulation User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:47:59 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: qemu coredumps on RELENG_7 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, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:01 -0000 Sorry for replying to myself ... Oliver Fromme wrote: > I'm trying to use the 7.0-RELEASE (i386) ISO in qemu > on a RELENG_7 host (i386, too) from March 5th. > It always coredumps with "invalid system call" > shortly before starting sysinstall, unless I boot > with "safe mode" from the loader menu _or_ without > a vortual harddisk attached to qemu. "virtual harddisk", of course. :-) Anyway, further examination seems to indicate that the problem is related to harddisk DMA. Is there a known problem with it on FreeBSD with qemu? Unfortunately, using PIO for the harddisk (in order to avoid qemu crashing) makes the emulated system very slow, so it's unusable for any production work. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do." -- Dennis M. Ritchie