virtual machine software

Jim Stapleton stapleton.41 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 06:25:45 PDT 2008


On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
> Jim Stapleton wrote:
>  > Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs.
>  >
>  > -Jim Stapleton
>
>  If it crashes with 'Bad system call' make sure you have aio support
>  loaded.  I missed it when I recently installed it, but the pkg-message
>  does mention it:
>
>  - qemu now uses aio at least for ide dma, so if you get `Invalid system
>  call' crashes that is because aio is not (kld)loaded.
>
>  --
>  Bruce

I missed that, and as I recall, that was my error. I'll try that once
I'm done rebuilding my system.
Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton


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