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

[Juergen Lock]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:56PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> 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

Please redownload, at least if you want to use qemu-system-arm -old-param,
there was a break missing.  (I also removed a bogus patch with no functional
change.)  tb went thru btw, at least for current...

 Thanx,
	Juergen