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Re: KQEMU on FreeBSD partially works. (Was: [Qemu-devel] Accelerator for
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Antony T Curtis |
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Re: KQEMU on FreeBSD partially works. (Was: [Qemu-devel] Accelerator for FreeBSD?) |
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Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:15:08 +0000 |
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:27 -0600, Ryan Rempel wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:57:33 +0000, Antony T Curtis
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 19:42 -0600, Ryan Rempel wrote:
> > > There is a reference here [1] to the possibility of porting the
> > > Accelerator to *BSD by porting a small "C stub".
> > >
> > > Is anyone working on this at the moment?
>
> > I have made some headway... The attached stub appears to work but in my
> > limited testing so far, it may be a bit unstable. The driver stub is for
> > FreeBSD 4 (tested on 4.9) and I may work on a 5.3+ one soon.
>
> Thanks! I would need one that works with 5.3 -- I'll take a look when
> I get a chance and see what I can figure out.
>
> When you say "a bit unstable", do you mean unstable for the guest OS
> or unstable for the host as well? Just curious ...
Unstable for the host - but since I am using a fairly old FreeBSD, it
could be partly to blame. I'll need to see if it misbehaves as much on
4-STABLE.
It seems to work fine, until the guest tries to change video mode (going
from text to graphics) - this behaviour happens with Windows, Linux and
OS/2 as guest - at which time, the host experiences a sudden reset.
I have FreeBSD 5 which I will get up to date and then try out... I am
also going to try setting up the guest as a text-only setup and use
xdm...
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