Is QEMU working/reliable under ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 01/27/15 19:18, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 01/27/15 15:04, Roland Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:08:58AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>
>>> .... FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5, qemu-0.11.1_18, kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11_12 
>>> ? I
>>> have tried w/ kqemu loaded & unloaded (recommended online), w/
>>> -nographic, w/ -vga std, etc. No love. All I want to do is run a WinXP
>>> 32bit VM &/or a 64-bit Win7 VM from my desktop (xfce-4.10_7, 
>>> xorg-7.7_1,
>>> xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_5) :-/ .... Several online sites imply that it
>>> works OK, 1 specifically w/ FreeBSD 9 no less. Any clues appreciated,
>>> any more info gladly provided ....
>> This version is *ancient*. I would suggest trying qemu-devel instead, 
>> because
>> that provides qemu-2.2.0. Last time I tried it 0.11 with or without 
>> qkemu
>> crashed a lot.
>>
>> According to the website, qemu version 0.11 and up do not support kqemu
>> anymore (see http://wiki.qemu.org/KQEMU), so you don't need that 
>> anymore.
>>
>> In time (and if your processor is new enough to have “extended page 
>> tables”) I
>> guess qemu on FreeBSD could be replaced by the bhyve hypervisor that 
>> is now in
>> 10.x and is being developed further in HEAD. Currently bhyve can load 
>> FreeBSD,
>> OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux guests. Support to run windoze as a guest 
>> will come
>> in the future.
>>
>> Roland
>
> OK, I have qemu-devel compiled & installed, kqemu unloaded from the 
> kernel, & (hopefully) a build of a VM underway, command-line: qemu 
> -cdrom ../../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 256 -boot d -cpu 
> athlon  -vga std  -nographic -no-acpi -localtime, w/ qemu softlinked 
> to qemu-system-x86_64 in /usr/local/bin. How long is this expected to 
> take :-) ? TIA & thx for everything so far ....

Well, I killed this after 5+ hrs & tried the same command w/ 
qemu-system-i386, killed it after 54 min. Both gave a small bit of 
gibberish in the CLI window I started them in, then nothing until killed 
:-/ .... Is anyone onlist successfully using qemu-devel 2.2.0 under 
FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 w/ windoze VM's :-) ? TIA ....

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