[Qemu-devel] Re: testing qemu svn r6636 on FreeBSD; future of qemu on FreeBSD...

[Juergen Lock]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:57:09PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:20 +0100
> Juergen Lock <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:16:50PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> {snip old stuff]
> > > > It is possible that you got hit by the kqemu tsc vs smp problem, i.e.
> > > > passing `notsc' to the guest kernel or forcing qemu onto one cpu
> > > > (cpuset -l 0 qemu ...) may have helped there, sorry I should have 
> > > > thought
> > > > of that earlier...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I just tried these suggestions (with the standard qemu-devel) and they
> > > don't seem to do any harm :-P
> > > 
> > ..but they didn't help either?  (i.e. w/o -no-acpi)
> >
> 
> Yes it did.  It boots without -no-apci and with notpc just fine.
> 
You mean notsc, right...?

> > > 
> > > Now I'm thinking about giving the patched qemu-devel another try, since
> > > I've found some workarounds for booting.  I'll see whether I can at least
> > > boot into the installed openSUSE using it.
> > 
> 
> OK, the patched qemu-devel can boot the already installed openSUSE.
> 
> I tried it with and without kernel-kqemu and both worked as long as
> I booted with notpc.
> 
 ..also notsc here? :)

> Can't explain why the installation failed, though.

 OK, thanx,
        Juergen