Is QEMU working/reliable under ....

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:08:58AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> 
> .... FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5, qemu-0.11.1_18, kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11_12 ? I 
> have tried w/ kqemu loaded & unloaded (recommended online), w/ 
> -nographic, w/ -vga std, etc. No love. All I want to do is run a WinXP 
> 32bit VM &/or a 64-bit Win7 VM from my desktop (xfce-4.10_7, xorg-7.7_1, 
> xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_5) :-/ .... Several online sites imply that it 
> works OK, 1 specifically w/ FreeBSD 9 no less. Any clues appreciated, 
> any more info gladly provided ....

This version is *ancient*. I would suggest trying qemu-devel instead, because
that provides qemu-2.2.0. Last time I tried it 0.11 with or without qkemu
crashed a lot.

According to the website, qemu version 0.11 and up do not support kqemu
anymore (see http://wiki.qemu.org/KQEMU), so you don't need that anymore.

In time (and if your processor is new enough to have “extended page tables”) I
guess qemu on FreeBSD could be replaced by the bhyve hypervisor that is now in
10.x and is being developed further in HEAD. Currently bhyve can load FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux guests. Support to run windoze as a guest will come
in the future.

Roland
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