Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:30:07 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please test experimental qemu-devel-20080620 snapshot and kqemu-1.4.0pre1 update! Message-ID: <e71790db0806262130m411b83e4g48a77ffb81e5d1ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080620211216.GA75382@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <20080620211216.GA75382@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote: > I've been playing with a qemu-devel update again recently (which also > includes a kqemu api change, therefore I have a new kqemu-kmod-devel > port too), and these are the main news: > > - Many targets including x86 have been converted from dyngen to tcg > completely, which should allow building them with newer gcc versions; > I've added an ALL_TARGETS knob that can be turned off if you only need > these targets, that avoids building the gcc34 port if you're on 7.0 or > later. Here is the list out of the CONFIGURE_ARGS: > i386-softmmu,sparc-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu,mips-softmmu,mipsel-softmmu,mips64-softmmu,mips64el-softmmu,arm-softmmu,m68k-softmmu > (I only tested i386 and x86_64 a little bit. This knob also needs testing > on 7.0 and later i386 hosts.) > - kqemu now also works for i386-softmmu on amd64 hosts, i.e. you no longer > need to use qemu-system-x86_64 there if you want kqemu. > - And of course the usual round of bugfixes and optimizations, etc. > > The tcg conversions can cause regressions tho, and indeed I found > that 7.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso causes qemu-system-x86_64 to crash on > i386 hosts, it'd be interesting if you can find more. (I'll post a seperate > message with details about that crash on the qemu list, and probably won't > commit this version because of that.) > > I didn't inline the update and kqemu port this time since its two files, > just fetch them from: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/kqemu-kmod-devel.shar > and > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080620.patch > > Enjoy, I just gave it a try on 7.0-STABLE/i386. Installing Windows XP Pro is working pretty well. QNX 6.3.2 is unable to find the mouse, but I'm not sure if this is a problem in QEMU or in QNX. ;-) -- If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.
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