experimental qemu-devel port update, please test!

[Juergen Lock]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:41:01PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > > > 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.. :)
> 
> For this reason I have
> 
> PORTS_MODULES=emulators/kqemu-kmod
> 
> in /etc/make.conf so that it gets rebuilt when I rebuild the kernel.
> 
> >  Right, qemu doesn't come with one (I haven't played with pxe booting
> > yet so I didn't even notice.)
> 
> Actually it does.  See /usr/local/share/qemu/pxe-* but due to
> at lease one bug it doesn't work.

Not for the eepro100 (fxp) varietys.
> 
> > >  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.
> 
> I found and fixed one bug in src/core/osloader.c (in
> etherboot-5.4.3 code) which allows me to get a little bit
> further.  If anyone wants to play with this more, I can send
> them my changes.

 You may want to post those on the qemu list...

	Juergen