QEMU

[Jason Bacon]

On 7/19/18 4:32 PM, Jason Bacon wrote:
> 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...
>
I'm getting "lock order reversal" errors followed by stack traces when 
running portsnap.  Bleeding-edge 12.0 issue?

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