experimental qemu-devel port update, please test!

[Juergen Lock]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:21:48AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 04/19/07 13:52, Juergen Lock wrote:
> >In article <46237925.60309 at freebsd.org> you write:
> >>On 04/14/07 12:00, Juergen Lock wrote:
> >>>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?
> >>Yea, but I found out it does it whether or not I use the vmwarevga 
> >>option, and seems to be tied to kqemu kldloaded.  I'm still looking at 
> >>it - kind of painful since it crashes my host system.  The guest is a 
> >>etherbooted FreeBSD-current, but it doesn't get far enough to even boot 
> >>the OS in the guest.
> >
> >Ah so its a kqemu problem?  You may want to post about that on the qemu
> >list... (You can also disable kqemu by running qemu with -no-kqemu btw.)
> >
> > Or, did something in your kernel change maybe that necessitates
> >a rebuild of the kqemu kld?
> 
> Evidently that was it - after rebuilding/reinstalling the kqemu module, 
> all is well.  Nothing else changed to make it work.  Woohoo!  Thanks - 
> not sure why I didn't think of that.. :)
> 
Ah, good to know its not a bug this time... :)
> 
> >>>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...
> >>I'll try that if I still suspect it.  Although, I can say that without 
> >>kqemu loaded, but the vmwarevga option used, my ethernet device ends up 
> >>with a MAC of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.  I can't override it either.
> >
> > Thats probably a result of io address overlaps with the emulated nic
> >caused by the current version of the vmwarevga emulation (the author of
> >that is currently away afaik, otherwise it probably would have been
> >fixed already at least in qemu cvs.)  You may be able to get around that
> >by using the eepro nic emulation.  (sound is also affected btw, see the
> >mentioned -vmwarevga thread on the qemu list.)
> 
> When I use the eepro nic, it claims I don't have a PXE boot rom.

 Right, qemu doesn't come with one (I haven't played with pxe booting
yet so I didn't even notice.)

>  I 
> tried to make one, but it still didn't like it.  I'm not sure which 
> selection to pick from the rom-o-matic site.
> 
 Sorry can't help you there...
> 
> >>I'll try some more things, and report back.
> >
> > Ok.
> >	Juergen
> 
> 
> Thanks for the great support so far..
> 
> Eric

 You're welcome!
	Juergen