Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:47:49 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qemu coredumps on RELENG_7 Message-ID: <20080317104749.GU10374@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <200803170847.m2H8lwrf029302@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200803170814.m2H8EHdh027983@lurza.secnetix.de> <200803170847.m2H8lwrf029302@lurza.secnetix.de>
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--/X7s3i+qRyIJm2VP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:47:58AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Sorry for replying to myself ... >=20 > 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. >=20 > "virtual harddisk", of course. :-) >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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. Definitely, kldload aio before running qemu. --/X7s3i+qRyIJm2VP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkfeTFUACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4jM1gCdH5AKXcHNVLurnf4IMq4WGIO7 +CAAoKTHSpM44xaA5bgTws2LuY8GXIQV =J15I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/X7s3i+qRyIJm2VP--
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