Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Disable AIO for Mac OS X

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> While trying current svn, it looks like AIO support compiles on
> Mac OS X finally. Unfortunately it is broken and as soon as I want
> to run any image, it endless loops in block.c:1446 which is:
>
>     while (async_ret == NOT_DONE) {
>         qemu_aio_wait();
>     }
>   

Are you using cocoa?

I don't think the AIO code is broken here.  I think something else is 
broken and disabling AIO hides the symptom.  Can you dig more into this?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> So for the time being, let's simply disable aio for Mac OS X.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> ---
>  configure |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index c3fbbbe..3e701b9 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ cocoa="yes"
>  audio_drv_list="coreaudio"
>  audio_possible_drivers="coreaudio sdl fmod"
>  OS_LDFLAGS="-framework CoreFoundation -framework IOKit"
> +aio="no"
>  ;;
>  SunOS)
>      solaris="yes"
>