Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/13] hw/m68k: add Apple Machintosh Quadra 800 machine

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 06/08/2018 05:05 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> I'm rebasing some of these patches for seven years now,
> too many years...
> 
> It's an RFC because things have changed in QEMU in seven years,
> for instance the VIA has a new implementation (mos6522) introduced
> by Mark Cave-Ayland and I didn't rework my implementation to
> fit into this new one (any volunteers?), display has some glitches,
> ADB devices are not identified correctly.
> 
> if you want to test the machine, I'm sorry, it doesn't boot
> a MacROM, but you can boot a linux kernel from the command line.
> 
> You can install your own disk using debian-installer, with:
> 
>     ...
>     -M q800 \
>     -serial none -serial mon:stdio \
>     -m 1000M -drive file=m68k.qcow2,format=qcow2 \
>     -net nic,model=dp83932,addr=09:00:07:12:34:57 \
>     -append "console=ttyS0 vga=off" \
>     -kernel vmlinux-4.15.0-2-m68k \
>     -initrd initrd.gz \
>     -drive file=debian-9.0-m68k-NETINST-1.iso \
>     -drive file=m68k.qcow2,format=qcow2 \
>     -nographic

qemu-system-m68k: -drive file=m68k.qcow2,format=qcow2: Failed to get
"write" lock
Is another process using the image?

(two times same file provided in cmdline arguments)

@block-team I found it funny because this is the very same process which
already locked. The error message is enough as it imo.