QEMU

[Jon Noack]

Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:03:00PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a
>> knoppix live-cd from iso-image with:
>
> I tried to build it from ports on amd64 but the compiler segfaulted. :-(
> So it might be interesting to know what platform you're running on. From
> the compiler output I could see a lot of size mismatch warnings, i.e. 64
> bit issues.

Works fine for me on i386.

>> qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -boot d
>>
>> It always reboots the computer (no core-dump, no panic, just reboot -
>> and that's as user-started process, not under root). Same thing under
>> X11 or console.
>>
>> I've never used qemu before, so it could be my fault :)
>
> I've used qemu on Linux before (that's how I tried FreeBSD first), and
> it ran fine. However, there are at least two qemu binaries built, one
> that uses the hosts MMU, and one that has software MMU
> emulation. I'd use the last one if I were you. I never could get the one
> that uses the host MMU to work.

The host MMU version (aka qemu-fast) is Linux-only as far as I know.  The
FreeBSD port doesn't build it at the very least.

Jon