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

[Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org>]

Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:

  >  Device tree strings 0x0000000002450000 -> 0x00000000024504d9
  >  Device tree struct  0x0000000002451000 -> 0x0000000002453000
  >  Calling quiesce ...
  >  returning from prom_init
  > 
  > it hangs.
  
  It doesn't hang. It tries to display stuff on the graphical screen
  which you disabled. You need to tell the kernel to use the serial
  console.
  
I take it back and say "it appears to hang to a naive user".

I suppose I'll wait until I can find some documentation, such as a
simple example from which to start, and stop DOSing your developers'
mailing list with my qemu troubles.  :-)

  >  If you need performance for this, please just grab a PPC machine and
  >  use KVM on it. It will be a lot faster.
  > 
  > Physical machines take space and need power.  Qemu is a lot leaner.  :-)
  
  *shrug* depends on what you want to do. If you want to actually do
  *something useful, I'd recommend KVM.

You might have different goals than me.  Speed is nice, and sometimes
critically important.  But for my project to get (pseudo) access to lots
of more hardware for GNU software testing purposes, speed is not a major
issue.  Stability, robustness, reproducibility, documentation, are
critically important to me.

-- 
Torbjörn