please test experimental qemu-devel-20080620 snapshot and kqemu-1.4.0pre1 update!

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:

>  I've been playing with a qemu-devel update again recently (which also
> includes a kqemu api change, therefore I have a new kqemu-kmod-devel
> port too), and these are the main news:
>
> - Many targets including x86 have been converted from dyngen to tcg
> completely, which should allow building them with newer gcc versions;
> I've added an ALL_TARGETS knob that can be turned off if you only need
> these targets, that avoids building the gcc34 port if you're on 7.0 or
> later.  Here is the list out of the CONFIGURE_ARGS:
>        i386-softmmu,sparc-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu,mips-softmmu,mipsel-softmmu,mips64-softmmu,mips64el-softmmu,arm-softmmu,m68k-softmmu
> (I only tested i386 and x86_64 a little bit.  This knob also needs testing
> on 7.0 and later i386 hosts.)
> - kqemu now also works for i386-softmmu on amd64 hosts, i.e. you no longer
> need to use qemu-system-x86_64 there if you want kqemu.
> - And of course the usual round of bugfixes and optimizations, etc.
>
>  The tcg conversions can cause regressions tho, and indeed I found
> that 7.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso causes qemu-system-x86_64 to crash on
> i386 hosts, it'd be interesting if you can find more.  (I'll post a seperate
> message with details about that crash on the qemu list, and probably won't
> commit this version because of that.)
>
>  I didn't inline the update and kqemu port this time since its two files,
> just fetch them from:
>        http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/kqemu-kmod-devel.shar
> and
>        http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080620.patch
>
>  Enjoy,

I just gave it a try on 7.0-STABLE/i386. Installing Windows XP Pro is
working pretty well. QNX 6.3.2 is unable to find the mouse, but I'm
not sure if this is a problem in QEMU or in QNX. ;-)
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