qemu booting amd64 fbsd

[Juergen Lock]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:11:41AM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:43:04PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > hi
> > 
> > I am trying to boot fbsd at amd64 7.1R in qemu-0.9.1_11 but it panics
> > early in the boot. usually. sometimes it gets upto the root mounting
> > but then hangs...
> > 
> > am I doing something wrong or is this just broken?
> > 
> > is there any other (reliable) way how to boot amd64 fbsd in sw?
> 
> I use the patch below for the long time. Not sure whether this is your
> case.
> 
> --- cpu-exec.c.orig	2008-02-16 18:23:53.134009488 +0200
> +++ cpu-exec.c	2008-02-16 18:24:47.127662872 +0200
> @@ -452,13 +452,15 @@
>[...]

..or you can try the qemu-devel port which has that patch.  Also, at least
-kernel-kqemu still is broken for FreeBSD/amd64 guests, even with qemu svn
(which no longer needs that patch), see this post if you want to try my
latest snapshot:
	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-February/005650.html

 Oh and btw there just have been reports of image corruption with
qcow(2) images in qemu svn, so better use raw images for now... (they're
faster anyway.)

 HTH,
	Juergen