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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:46:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        kostikbel@gmail.com (Kostik Belousov)
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: qemu coredumps on RELENG_7
Message-ID:  <200803171346.m2HDkpre042693@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080317104749.GU10374@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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Kostik Belousov wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Definitely,
 > kldload aio
 > before running qemu.

Thank you, that seems to solve the problem indeed.
Is that documented somewhere?  It's not in the manpage.
I think it should be in the manpage ...  would have
saved me quite some time.

Best regards
   Oliver

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