From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DE5IQ-0005ug-6i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:49:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DE5II-0005rp-EK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:49:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DE5IF-0005h4-Hk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:49:03 -0500 Received: from [212.250.162.16] (helo=mta08-winn.mailhost.ntl.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DE4lX-0005A7-Fb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:15:15 -0500 Subject: Re: KQEMU on FreeBSD partially works. (Was: [Qemu-devel] Accelerator for FreeBSD?) From: Antony T Curtis In-Reply-To: References: <1111417053.397.7.camel@pcgem.xiphis.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:15:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1111580108.2588.26.camel@pcgem.xiphis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ryan Rempel Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:27 -0600, Ryan Rempel wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:57:33 +0000, Antony T Curtis > wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 19:42 -0600, Ryan Rempel wrote: > > > There is a reference here [1] to the possibility of porting the > > > Accelerator to *BSD by porting a small "C stub". > > > > > > Is anyone working on this at the moment? > > > I have made some headway... The attached stub appears to work but in my > > limited testing so far, it may be a bit unstable. The driver stub is for > > FreeBSD 4 (tested on 4.9) and I may work on a 5.3+ one soon. > > Thanks! I would need one that works with 5.3 -- I'll take a look when > I get a chance and see what I can figure out. > > When you say "a bit unstable", do you mean unstable for the guest OS > or unstable for the host as well? Just curious ... Unstable for the host - but since I am using a fairly old FreeBSD, it could be partly to blame. I'll need to see if it misbehaves as much on 4-STABLE. It seems to work fine, until the guest tries to change video mode (going from text to graphics) - this behaviour happens with Windows, Linux and OS/2 as guest - at which time, the host experiences a sudden reset. I have FreeBSD 5 which I will get up to date and then try out... I am also going to try setting up the guest as a text-only setup and use xdm... -- Antony T Curtis, BSc. UNIX, Linux, *BSD, Networking antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com C++, J2EE, Perl, MySQL, Apache IT Consultancy.