testing qemu svn r6636 on FreeBSD; future of qemu on FreeBSD...

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:20 +0100
Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:16:50PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
{snip old stuff]
> > > It is possible that you got hit by the kqemu tsc vs smp problem, i.e.
> > > passing `notsc' to the guest kernel or forcing qemu onto one cpu
> > > (cpuset -l 0 qemu ...) may have helped there, sorry I should have thought
> > > of that earlier...
> > > 
> > 
> > I just tried these suggestions (with the standard qemu-devel) and they
> > don't seem to do any harm :-P
> > 
> ..but they didn't help either?  (i.e. w/o -no-acpi)
>

Yes it did.  It boots without -no-apci and with notpc just fine.

> > 
> > Now I'm thinking about giving the patched qemu-devel another try, since
> > I've found some workarounds for booting.  I'll see whether I can at least
> > boot into the installed openSUSE using it.
> 

OK, the patched qemu-devel can boot the already installed openSUSE.

I tried it with and without kernel-kqemu and both worked as long as
I booted with notpc.

Can't explain why the installation failed, though.

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Gary Jennejohn