AMD64 qemu completely broken?

[Juergen Lock]

In article <7d6fde3d0812041105h43cf6586r5092e234a6350310 at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you running the ports version, or a different version, and/or are
>>> you using kqemu (I've heard this was broken, in the past)? My group at
>>> Cisco has several issues with older versions of qemu for PPC and when
>>> we applied patches, it improved support greatly in some cases, and
>>> introduced bugs in other cases =\.
>>>
>>> I'd definitely hit the devel list for QEMU and see what they say while
>>> you're waiting for a more substantial reply here.
>>
>> I'm using the ports version.  I am using kqemu... although I can try without
>> the kernel module later today.
>>
>> How out-of-date is the port?
>
>1. Try without kqemu :) (or at least rebuild it, then disable it if
>you continue to run into problems).
>2. emulators/qemu is the latest stable, but there are typically a
>number of changes floating out in the devel branch
>(emulators/qemu-devel) that might be of interest to you:
>
>[root at optimus /store]# grep -r ^PORTVERSION /usr/ports/emulators/qemu*
>/usr/ports/emulators/qemu/Makefile:PORTVERSION= 0.9.1
>/usr/ports/emulators/qemu-devel/Makefile:PORTVERSION=   0.9.1s.20080620

Yes, qemu-devel is worth a try.  I also post experimental port updates
on -emulation once in a while that bring the qemu-devel port to more recent
svn snapshots, like here:
	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-November/005530.html

 Oh and btw -kernel-kqemu is known to be broken with FreeBSD/amd64 guests,
I was still able to boot 7.1-BETA2-amd64-livefs.iso into fixit->cdrom
and try a few things in there using `regular' (userland) kqemu and my
latest qemu-devel snapshot tho.

 HTH,
	Juergen