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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:00:13 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(
From: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>>
>> years later.  Does Qemu run on Linux 2.4?
>
> QEMU runs on RedHat 9 which is 2.4.20 but only with this
> patch (otherwise it just hangs at startup):
>
> --- vl.c        (revision 6510)
> +++ vl.c        (working copy)
> @@ -1008,8 +1008,8 @@
> static struct qemu_alarm_timer alarm_timers[] = {
> #ifndef _WIN32
> #ifdef __linux__
> -    {"dynticks", ALARM_FLAG_DYNTICKS, dynticks_start_timer,
> -     dynticks_stop_timer, dynticks_rearm_timer, NULL},
> +//    {"dynticks", ALARM_FLAG_DYNTICKS, dynticks_start_timer,
> +//     dynticks_stop_timer, dynticks_rearm_timer, NULL},
>    /* HPET - if available - is preferred */
>    {"hpet", 0, hpet_start_timer, hpet_stop_timer, NULL, NULL},
>    /* ...otherwise try RTC */

You can override the order of the timers with -clock, e.g.:
-clock hpet,rtc,unix
will try first hpet, then rtc and unix (ignoring dynticks).
It should hang though, can you see if dynticks_rearm_timer gets called?

Luca