Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu ports actually work?

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

Am 26.10.2010 18:38, schrieb Torbjorn Granlund:
> I am not sure this inquiry is appropriate for this mailing list. But at
> the qemu web site, this is the only mailing list mentioned.
>
> I would like to run as many OS's as possible under as many processors as
> possible, using qemu. Results thus far has not been very encouraging,
> though.
>
> Here is my test matrix:
>
> fbsd-8_1 nbsd-5_0_2 debian-5 gentoo hurd
>
> sparc n/a OK n/a n/a n/a
>
> sparc64 fw crash fw crash kern crash black fb n/a
>
> ppc early hang fw crash OK kern hang n/a
>
> ppc64 early panic fw crash kern hang kern hang n/a
>
> i386 OK OK OK installs,
> non-booting
> x86_64 OK OK OK
>
> These are results from multiple attempts and google searches for what
> other people have done. Unfortunately, there aren't many matches,
> except that the various error messages I get have been experienced by
> several other people.
>
> Is this what I can expect from qemu today? Are the goals of the qemu
> project to make the various ports operational for running these OS's?
> If yes, what is the time frame?
>
> It would be nice with a status page (there is a blank such page already,
> I mean a non-blank page...) informing about the status of the various
> ports. A naive user--such as myself--tends to assume that a released
> port actually works. It takes many hours of poorly used effort before
> one can conclude that e.g., sparc64 does not work at all.
>
> (We should probably not blame qemu for hurd's shortcomings here. Hurd
> is highly experimental. I have not tried it on actual hardware.)


Which kind of host did you use? i386? x86_64? Linux? Windows?

My working setups run on a Debian Linux (x86_64) host
(most were also tested sucessfully on a Debian Linux (i386) host).

Debian Linux i386, x86_64, arm, mips, mips64, ppc guests work.
Obviously many developers use similar setups, so
they are well tested and debugged.

Regards,
Stefan Weil