[Qemu-devel] Illumos/SmartOS support

[Lee Essen]

Resend -- not sure what happened to my first mail...

Hi,

I've been working on getting the mainline qemu tree working on SmartOS 
(illumos), the current qemu support seems to be a branch of qemu-kvm and we've 
been having some problems getting spice working, so moving to the main qemu 
tree seemed sensible.

Anyway, couple of questions…

1. Are you happy to accept patches that enable this?   
        - There are a few build related things that don't work … assumption of 
sh being bash, missing -64 argument to dtrace etc. 
        - There are also some dtrace language problems with tracetool (no 
support for bool, and self being reserved.) 
        - More fundamentally some object linking issues with dtrace which I'll 
need some help to find the best way to resolve.
        - Specific #ifdef CONFIG_SOLARIS/__sun__ stuff to support differences
        - ultimately the support for vnic's … but I haven't even looked at that 
yet.

        The current state is that it's working ok for Windows guests, and 
non-KVM for Linux, but kvm & linux seems to fail, hence question number 2.

2. I notice that the whole kvmvapic things has been added recently … the last 
thing that happens when I try to boot linux with kvm enabled is some a pic mmio 
accesses, then it stops at a hlt instruction and never gets going again. Has 
this been tested with Linux?  i.e. am I trying to solve a generic problem or is 
it an illumos specific?

Many thanks,

Lee.