experimental qemu-devel port update, please test!

[Juergen Lock]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 02:28:39PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 04/07/07 15:04, Juergen Lock wrote:
> >In article <4615DB05.8000608 at freebsd.org> you write:
> >>On 04/05/07 16:03, Juergen Lock wrote:
> >>>Hi!
> >>>
> >>> There have been a few interesting commits to qemu cvs, like,
> >>>a qcow2 corruption bugfix, vmware vga emulation (-vmwarevga), and
> >>>several emulated eepro100 (fxp) nic variants (-net nic,model=i82557b
> >>>-net user worked for me with FreeBSD and linux guests, and seemed even
> >>>slightly faster than the rtl8139 that already outperforms the default
> >>>ne2kpci), so I prepared another qemu-devel port update that I now want
> >>>you all to test with your various guests before I commit it!
> >>>
> >>> TIA, and enjoy...
> >>>	Juergen
> >>>
> >>>Remove files: files/patch-audio::ossaudio.c files/patch-bh
> >>
> >>Building it now.  Quick question:  why have some diffs below in the 
> >>patch, when you say remove those files?  Just curious..
> >
> >Oh, just for the benefit of users who might forget to rm them after
> >applying the diff. :)  (patch turning them into empty files...)
> >
> > Just committed this btw.
> >
> >	Juergen
> 
> 
> Hmm.. Now, using the vmware driver makes my system either shutdown, or 
> insta-reboot.  :(

You mean -vmwarevga?  Which guest?  And, does the guest crash or the host?
You could try disabling the
	#define HW_RECT_ACCEL
	#define HW_FILL_ACCEL
near the top of hw/vmware_vga.c, a range check is missing in the
accellerated case, see
	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-04/msg00136.html
> 
> kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11 Kernel Acceralator for QEMU CPU Emulator 
> (development versi
> qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070405_2 QEMU CPU Emulator - development snapshot

 Yeah those are the lastest...

	Juergen