From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44654 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAniy-00056W-VP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:55:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAnin-0007Zy-W9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:54:07 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:63122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAnin-0007Zq-Is for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:54:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC715B7.6090100@mail.berlios.de> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:53:59 +0200 From: Stefan Weil MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu ports actually work? References: <86sjzssydf.fsf@shell.gmplib.org> In-Reply-To: <86sjzssydf.fsf@shell.gmplib.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Torbjorn Granlund Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Am 26.10.2010 18:38, schrieb Torbjorn Granlund: > I am not sure this inquiry is appropriate for this mailing list. But at > the qemu web site, this is the only mailing list mentioned. > > I would like to run as many OS's as possible under as many processors as > possible, using qemu. Results thus far has not been very encouraging, > though. > > Here is my test matrix: > > fbsd-8_1 nbsd-5_0_2 debian-5 gentoo hurd > > sparc n/a OK n/a n/a n/a > > sparc64 fw crash fw crash kern crash black fb n/a > > ppc early hang fw crash OK kern hang n/a > > ppc64 early panic fw crash kern hang kern hang n/a > > i386 OK OK OK installs, > non-booting > x86_64 OK OK OK > > These are results from multiple attempts and google searches for what > other people have done. Unfortunately, there aren't many matches, > except that the various error messages I get have been experienced by > several other people. > > Is this what I can expect from qemu today? Are the goals of the qemu > project to make the various ports operational for running these OS's? > If yes, what is the time frame? > > It would be nice with a status page (there is a blank such page already, > I mean a non-blank page...) informing about the status of the various > ports. A naive user--such as myself--tends to assume that a released > port actually works. It takes many hours of poorly used effort before > one can conclude that e.g., sparc64 does not work at all. > > (We should probably not blame qemu for hurd's shortcomings here. Hurd > is highly experimental. I have not tried it on actual hardware.) Which kind of host did you use? i386? x86_64? Linux? Windows? My working setups run on a Debian Linux (x86_64) host (most were also tested sucessfully on a Debian Linux (i386) host). Debian Linux i386, x86_64, arm, mips, mips64, ppc guests work. Obviously many developers use similar setups, so they are well tested and debugged. Regards, Stefan Weil