Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu svn r5281 on FreeBSD - slow usb, vmwarevga, screen updates... (now updated to r5313)

["Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>>>
>>>  Here is another experimental update that forces -lthr on 6.x, and
>>> also updates to qemu svn r5313:
>>>       http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20080924.patch
>>>
>>
>> I just built this update and it seems to have fixed the issue.  Host
>> CPU usage again tracks with guest CPU usage and all seems well.  I'll
>> continue to use this build to see if anything else crops up.
>>
>> Please let me know if there is anything other information I can provide.
>>
>
> If ya'll have patches to make QEMU work on FreeBSD, please submit them.  I'm
> about to commit a patch that's what it took for me to get SVN working on
> FreeBSD.
>
> The one thing that really tripped me up with the whole aio kld-module thing.
>  Perhaps we should detect the presence of the module at run time and disable
> aio?  I assume kldload can only be run as root?

Yes, only root can load kernel modules. I think the best approach for
QEMU would be showing a message instructing the user kldload aio
and/or include a line in /boot/loader.conf countaining

     aio_load="YES"

-- 
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean