QEMU

[Jason Bacon]

On 07/09/18 16:00, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
>
> On 07/09/18 13:39, Jason Bacon wrote:
>> On 07/09/18 14:17, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> On 7/9/18 11:55 AM, Jason Bacon wrote:
>>>> Anyone running on qemu lately?
>>>>
>>>> I've tried following the "recipe": 
>>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuRecipes
>>>> and tried using aqemu.
>>>>
>>>> 11.2-RELEASE hangs during boot from the ISO.
>>>>
>>>> 11.1 makes it to the install screen, but does not accept keyboard 
>>>> input.
>>>>
>>>> Hoping to fix ppc issues in some of the ports I maintain and I don't
>>>> have any ppc hardware at the moment.
>>> It's been a while since I tried those (I put the recipes up), and IIRC
>>> I was only ever able to boot powerpc64 under qemu, never 32-bit.
>>>
>> Just noticed that the keyboard works during initial boot (I can hit 
>> enter to cancel the countdown after loading the kernel), but
>> after successfully starting services and launching the installer, 
>> there is no response.
>>
>> "Scanning USB" shows a USB keyboard and mouse and "no console 
>> specified using screen & keyboard".
>>
>> Adding -usb and/or -device usb-kbd don't seem to help.
>>
>> How about PearPC?
>>
>
> Maybe a USB problem? If you run with -nographic with 
> qemu-system-ppc64, it will work reliably. Other modes are less 
> well-tested.
> -Nathan

With -nographic, it hangs before loading the kernel:

+ qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -cdrom 
Save/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso -drive 
'file=freebsd-ppc.img,format=raw' -boot d


SLOF **********************************************************************
QEMU Starting
  Build Date = Mar  3 2017 13:29:19
  FW Version = git-66d250ef0fd06bb8
  Press "s" to enter Open Firmware.

Populating /vdevice methods
Populating /vdevice/vty at 71000000
Populating /vdevice/nvram at 71000001
Populating /vdevice/l-lan at 71000002
Populating /vdevice/v-scsi at 71000003
        SCSI: Looking for devices
           8000000000000000 DISK     : "QEMU     QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+"
           8200000000000000 CD-ROM   : "QEMU     QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+"
Populating /pci at 800000020000000
                      00 0000 (D) : 1234 1111    qemu vga
                      00 0800 (D) : 1033 0194    serial bus [ usb-xhci ]
No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
Installing QEMU fb



Scanning USB
   XHCI: Initializing
     USB Keyboard
     USB mouse
No console specified using screen & keyboard



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Trying to load:  from: /vdevice/v-scsi at 71000003/disk at 8200000000000000 
...   Successfully loaded
Trying to write privileged spr 25 (0x019) at 00000000008b03c4


The disk image was created with

qemu-img create -f raw $diskimage 20g

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