qemu bsd-user

[Dinesh Subhraveti]

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:41:40PM -0800, "Dinesh Subhraveti" wrote:
>> This may not be the right place for a newbie question, but venturing 
>> anyway with some hope...
>>
>> I am interested in the Qemu bsd user emulation, but can't find a copy of 
>> Qemu source with bsd-user that I can build.  The mainline Qemu trunk 
>> doesn't directly build on FreeBSD and the qemu ports in 
>> /usr/ports/emulators/ don't have bsd-user.
>
> Well, I got bsd-user to build a while ago,
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-December/005579.html
> (it still builds in my latest snapshot,
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-February/005650.html
> ) but it is entirely untested, and as said in the first post it looks like
> at least the i386 (host) case needs someone with linker script fu to look 
> at
> it before it can actually work.  If you want to help you are more than
> welcome tho... :)  (you are actually the first one to ask about bsd-user
> on FreeBSD that I have seen!)

Thanks for the pointers.  I wish I could help or at least help myself for 
now.  I have an upcoming research deadline before which I need to figure 
this magic out...

Regards,