[Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi,

The last release of QEMU was 0.8.2 from 6 months ago,
Since then, quite a lot of features has been added to CVS and lots of
things were fixed..

So I was wondering, isn't it time to start prepare for a new release?
(I think it should be called 0.9.0, fabrice will probably disagree :)
).

Thanks,
Hetz
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Re: [Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Werner Dittmann]

Well, I'm not a Qemu developer and have no right to vote or make
suggestions here. Thus I can only express my humble opinion here (a
somewhat selfisch opinion though:-) ): I would love to see that a new
release would solve the problems with 64bit (x86-64) emulation. In
particular if Qemu was compiled on a x86_64 system with a native 64bit
compiler. To me it seems that there are some problems.

Regards,
Werner

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The last release of QEMU was 0.8.2 from 6 months ago,
> Since then, quite a lot of features has been added to CVS and lots of
> things were fixed..
> 
> So I was wondering, isn't it time to start prepare for a new release?
> (I think it should be called 0.9.0, fabrice will probably disagree :)
> ).
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz

Re: [Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Pascal Terjan]

On 12/24/06, Werner Dittmann <Werner.Dittmann@t-online.de> wrote:
> Well, I'm not a Qemu developer and have no right to vote or make
> suggestions here. Thus I can only express my humble opinion here (a
> somewhat selfisch opinion though:-) ): I would love to see that a new
> release would solve the problems with 64bit (x86-64) emulation. In
> particular if Qemu was compiled on a x86_64 system with a native 64bit
> compiler. To me it seems that there are some problems.

Could you be more precise ?
I have been using qemu on x86_64 built with a 64 bits compiler for
more than 1 year (maybe 2).

Re: [Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Thomas Sailer]

On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 22:24 +0100, Pascal Terjan wrote:

> Could you be more precise ?
> I have been using qemu on x86_64 built with a 64 bits compiler for
> more than 1 year (maybe 2).

I get a qemu segfault during build of http://projects.o-hand.com/poky.
Poky crosscompiles glibc for arm, then tries to run the built localedef
utility using qemu-arm. This step crashes (sig 11) for me under x86_64
using three days old CVS qemu (and also with older qemu). Haven't yet
tried unter x86_32, though, will do next year.

Tom

Re: [Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Werner Dittmann]

Sure, there are some emails here on the list expressing the problem.
Just to make sure that nothing is missed:

I'm using a Suse 10.1 system, running on a AMP 64bit CPU.
Qemu (0.8.2 as well as CVS versions) are compiled with gcc 3.3 in 64 bit
mode. I run an emulate the following systems with this Qemu builds:

- Windows 2000 SP4 (CVS version also with kqemu and 1024x768 resultion)
- Edubuntu 6.10 as 32 bit system
- Opensuse 10.2 Installation as 32 bit system

When I try to install Opensuse 10.2 as a 64 bit system the Qemu seems to
go into a loop. Pls refer to my emails with the subject
"Question/problems with Qemu and 64Bit Opensuse 10.2" for further
details about the error.

Regards,
Werner


Pascal Terjan wrote:
> On 12/24/06, Werner Dittmann <Werner.Dittmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>> Well, I'm not a Qemu developer and have no right to vote or make
>> suggestions here. Thus I can only express my humble opinion here (a
>> somewhat selfisch opinion though:-) ): I would love to see that a new
>> release would solve the problems with 64bit (x86-64) emulation. In
>> particular if Qemu was compiled on a x86_64 system with a native 64bit
>> compiler. To me it seems that there are some problems.
> 
> Could you be more precise ?
> I have been using qemu on x86_64 built with a 64 bits compiler for
> more than 1 year (maybe 2).
> 
> 
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Re: [Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:16:38AM +0100, Werner Dittmann wrote:
> When I try to install Opensuse 10.2 as a 64 bit system the Qemu seems to
> go into a loop.

same thing happens with Fedora Core 6, but still I am not sure that is enough
to pinpoint a problem to qemu, as they both share the same version of the
kernel (which is the one hanging).

FWIW, I have a Gentoo Linux 2006.1 host running a 64bit qemu 0.8.2 that was
partialy compiled with gcc 3.4.5 and that runs without problem the following
64bit systems :

  Ubuntu Linux 6/06
  Fedora Core 4 and 5
  rPath Linux 1.0
  T2 minimal 2.1.0 and desktop 6.0.0
  Oracle Enterprise Linux R4 U4
  OpenBSD 3.9 and 4.0 (no kqemu)
  NetBSD 3.0.1 and 3.1 (no kqemu)
  FreeBSD 6.1 (no kqemu)
  Solaris 10 (32bit because QEMU CPU isn't detected as amd64 enabled)

Carlo

Re: [Qemu-devel] time for 0.8.3/0.9?

[Fabrice Bellard]

I agree. There will be a new release in January.

Fabrice.

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The last release of QEMU was 0.8.2 from 6 months ago,
> Since then, quite a lot of features has been added to CVS and lots of
> things were fixed..
> 
> So I was wondering, isn't it time to start prepare for a new release?
> (I think it should be called 0.9.0, fabrice will probably disagree :)
> ).
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz