Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 3/5: Bugfix needed for FreeBSD/amd64 guests

[Juergen Lock]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:47:54PM +0200, I wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:56:51PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:26:07PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:06:11PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:38:39PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > > > This was originally posted as:
> > > > >       
> > > > > http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--i386-hard-interrupt-generation-bug-fix-p14921171.html
> > > > 
> > > > If I understand correctly, the problem appears when running
> > > > FreeBSD/amd64 as a guest. Could you please give more details about that?
> > > > (FreeBSD version, how to reproduce the problem, symptoms).
> > > 
> > > Hmm.  Actually I seem to be unable to reproduce this using the latest
> > > svn snapshot I built (r5457,
> > >   http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20081011.patch
> > > ) with that patch (files/patch-cpu-exec.c) taken out.
> > > 
> > >  Kostik, can you still reproduce it using this snapshot with the patch
> > > taken out?  I just tried 7.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso,
> > > 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and an older 8.0 guest I had, both with and
> > > without kqemu and the first two on i386 too... (-kernel-kqemu is still
> > > broken but thats a different bug.)
> > I am not set up for testing qemu snapshots.
> > I do still use the patch with freebsd qemu port for booting 8-CURRENT.
> > 
> Oh, you should be able to apply the qemu-devel-20081011.patch to a copy
> of the qemu-devel port dir, build that,

...and by `build that' i mean run `make' by itself in the patched port dir
so the port is only built but not installed.

>  and run the qemu executable from
> below the work/ dir with the pc-bios dir passed as -L:
>       work/qemu-snapshot-2008-10-11_18/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L 
> work/qemu-snapshot-2008-10-11_18/pc-bios -hda ...

 Just thought I'd clarify, :)
        Juergen