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.)