QEMU

[Jason Bacon]

On 07/19/18 14:09, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Jason Bacon <bacon4000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FYI, I get the exact same behavior under qemu 2.8.1 on Debian.
>>
>> So now we have similar symptoms in qemu 2.8.1, 2.9, and 2.12.50 on FreeBSD
>> and Linux hosts.
> FWIW, on an Ubuntu 14.04 system with qemu-system-ppc64 version 2.0.0,
> the ppc64 snapshot ISO of 12.0, the OS appears to install correctly
> and subsequently boots correctly.
>
> --chuck
That's worth a lot, actually.

The 12.0 snapshot also works on my FreeBSD 11.1 host with the stock qemu 
package.  Both keyboard and mouse input are processed.

Interestingly, though, while 12.0 works, it seems to be a lot slower 
than 11.1 under qemu.  Below are times to get to the install screen.  ( 
I just close the qemu window as soon as it reaches that point, where 
11.1 won't accept keyboard input. )

FreeBSD cray.acadix  bacon ~ 999: time qemu-ppc install freebsd-ppc.img 
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-powerpc64-20180709-r336134-disc1.iso
+ [ ! -e freebsd-ppc.img ]
+ qemu-system-ppc64 -cdrom 
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-powerpc-powerpc64-20180709-r336134-disc1.iso -drive 
'file=freebsd-ppc.img,format=raw' -boot d
217.327u 3.455s 4:21.41 84.4%    9628+6292k 94+2io 476pf+0w


FreeBSD cray.acadix  bacon ~ 1000: time qemu-ppc install freebsd-ppc.img 
Save/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-disc1.iso
+ [ ! -e freebsd-ppc.img ]
+ qemu-system-ppc64 -cdrom 
Save/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-disc1.iso -drive 
'file=freebsd-ppc.img,format=raw' -boot d
123.001u 1.748s 2:47.05 74.6%    9643+6302k 556+3io 0pf+0w

Maybe these data will provide some clues to the ppc base developers...

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