qemu-cvs FreeBSD guests, cirrus, vmwarevga emulation - experimental qemu-devel FreeBSD port update available for testing

[Juergen Lock]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:44:50PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>  Yesterday (so, just before the qemu version commit...) I prepared a
> FreeBSD qemu-devel port update using the 2008-01-05_05 snapshot,
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080105.patch
> and I already got a report of xorg 7.3 using the cirrus emulation in a
> FreeBSD 6.3 RC guest crashing with -kernel-kqemu, and hanging without it,
> which he said worked with the previous qemu cvs snapshot thats still in
> ports (2007-08-02_05.)  -vmwarevga worked, but still had the old problem
> of causing the ne2kpci nic not to attach (ed0.)  The i82557b nic can be
> used as a workaround (fxp0, its faster anyway), but I just verified with a
> FreeBSD 6.2 guest (you can use e.g. a FreeSBIE livecd iso, use `su' if
> you want to edit its /etc/X11/xorg.conf, after that exit the root shell
> and run `startx'; I gave qemu -m 256) that -vmwarevga also still causes
> the es1370 soundcard not to attach and I don't know a workaround for
> that.  Also, still slirp causes qemu to crash on amd64 hosts when just
> trying to access a webpage from inside a guest.

Update for the cirrus problem: He just said that in fact it also occured
with the 2007-08-02_05 snapshot, so at least the problem is older.
> 
>  So, can anyone reproduce any of these problems on e.g. a Linux host?
> Also, more testing of the FreeBSD port update is certainly needed, also
> using non-FreeBSD guests, non-i386/amd64 targets, and the new -disk option
> (which I didn't yet test at all, it should e.g. allow scsi drives to be
> emulated, tho very likely FreeBSD host support for the scsi passthru
> feature still needs to be done, and io via qemu is probably too slow to
> burn a dvd anyway. :)
> 
>  Thanx,
> 	Juergen
> 
> PS: I just see that 0.9.1 is actually out now, so I guess I should prepare
> an update to the qemu port instead, but not today...  (and testing this one
> is still useful.)

Ok I have a 0.9.1 update now that currently building on tb3, please help
testing:
	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-0.9.1.patch

 Thanx,
	Juergen