Re: qemu-img, BSD (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] new block layer)

[Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 19:11, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:19:08PM +0000, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I commited the new disk image layer of QEMU which adds the following 
> > features:
> > 
> >...
> 
> First: How do you use qemu-img?  If i try
> 	qemu-img create -b /dev/ad0 -f qcow testcow 10M
> I only get the usage back.
> 
>  Second question: Has anyone patched the new block layer for BSD already?
> At least FreeBSD can't access cdroms in 512 byte blocks, everything
> has to be done in the cd blocksize which is 2048.  (A patch for this
> from the list for the old block layer is in the port; It also needs
> to use DIOCGMEDIASIZE but that was quick to re-add.)

I have a new patch for the new block layer - it defines a new block type
(imaginately called 'dev') and the probe checks the DIOCGMEDIASIZE and
DIOCGSECTORSIZE ioctls... It also ensures that I/O is done in multiples
of the device sector size.

I'll have a new patch together for this soon...

On my machine (FreeBSD 5-NOT_SO_CURRENT), the slirp code causes a
SIGBUS... I might investigate - it looks like it occurs near
constructing the ethernet header... poor backtraces prevents me from
finding exactly where.

>  Here is an update for the port, I send it here because I dont
> think it should be committed until the cdrom issue is fixed...
> 
>  If you want to look at the patches in the port and don't have a
> FreeBSD ports tree on your system: you can check out the port from
> cvs by (for example) doing
> 
> 	CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.fr.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs cvs co ports/emulators/qemu
> 
>  (login with password anoncvs)
> 
>  the FreeBSD patches are in the files/ dir; patch-aa and -ab are from
> the list, patch-ac, patch-bd and patch-bf are FreeBSD only
> 
>  (apply this on top of the port in cvs, then remove files/patch-ba,
> files/patch-bb, files/patch-bg)
> 
>  Oh and if you try this after today 2340 (iirc) Jerusalem time
> you need to adjust the date in DISTNAME (and maybe more depending
> on what Fabrice commits...)
> 
> Index: Makefile

<snip - variant of old block patch which I originally hacked >

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