Building Kyua inside qemu mips VM

[Adrian Chadd]

Cool. Does that work for you?

Building the packages in the VM may take a while, but it's IMHO a good
test of the VM/platform support anyway.


-adrian


On 15 February 2015 at 11:32, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Oh OK, I do have it.  I guess I missed it:
>
> ifconfig
> le0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         ether 52:54:00:12:34:56
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: active
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>         groups: lo
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> I run qemu-devel, and:
>>
>> adrian      3361 101.2  9.7 639416 381572  1  S+    9:13PM  986:02.93
>> qemu-system-mips -M malta -kernel /tftpboot/kernel.MALTA -hda
>> ../fullroot-malta.img -hdb ../malta-swap.img -nographic -m 256
>>
>>
>>
>> -adrian
>>
>>
>> On 15 February 2015 at 11:10, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > It should just work by default. are you using qemu-devel ? If not, you
>> > should be.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -adrian
>> >
>> > On 15 February 2015 at 11:08, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Can you to https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation the
>> >> command-line
>> >> flags to QEMU
>> >> that allow usage of this NIC?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Yeah, it does:
>> >>>
>> >>> le0: <AMD PCnet-PCI> irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
>> >>> le0: Lazy allocation of 0x20 bytes rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x120
>> >>> le0: 16 receive buffers, 4 transmit buffers
>> >>> le0: bpf attached
>> >>> le0: Ethernet address: 52:54:00:12:34:56
>> >>>
>> >>> (I'm doing a buildworld right now inside it.)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -adrian
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 15 February 2015 at 10:55, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Also, can the MALTA kernel config support any network drivers
>> >>> > compatible
>> >>> > with QEMU?
>> >>> > I didn't see anything compiled into the default kernel config, but I
>> >>> > might
>> >>> > have missed it.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > --
>> >>> > Craig
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Craig Rodrigues
>> >>> > <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Hi,
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Have you tried any of these options to cross-build ports:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Those options look complicated, but workable.
>> >>> >> --
>> >>> >> Craig
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
>> >>> >> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> ... ask the ports people to support cross-building as a "thing"
>> >>> >>> one
>> >>> >>> can
>> >>> >>> do?
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> All of those ports you've mentioned should be a perfectly good
>> >>> >>> target
>> >>> >>> for cross-building; I've done them before individually.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> -adrian
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> On 15 February 2015 at 10:23, Craig Rodrigues
>> >>> >>> <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
>> >>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> >>> > Adrian,
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > I am continuing on the work started in the Hackathon which
>> >>> >>> > you organized in January.  I have this Jenkins job which
>> >>> >>> > builds a UFS image built for mips using the MALTA kernel config:
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD_mips32_be/
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > I am using this invocation of QEMU to boot the image with 256MB
>> >>> >>> > RAM:
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation#Configuring_QEMU
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > I am now trying to build /usr/ports/devel/kyua
>> >>> >>> > inside the VM, so that I can do "cd /usr/tests ; kyua test" to
>> >>> >>> > run
>> >>> >>> > all the tests.
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > However, building kyua and all its dependencies (atf, sqlite,
>> >>> >>> > lua,
>> >>> >>> > lutok)
>> >>> >>> > is taking a really long time inside this VM, on the order of
>> >>> >>> > many
>> >>> >>> > hours.
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > Is there something I can do to boost performance so I can at
>> >>> >>> > least
>> >>> >>> > build
>> >>> >>> > kyua faster in this VM?
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > --
>> >>> >>> > Craig
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >
>> >>
>> >>
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