As promised, I took a look at the problems mentioned. On 17.12.2011 15:02, Marc Lehmann wrote: > Package: qemu-kvm > Version: 1.0+dfsg-1 > Severity: normal > > > after upgrading from 0.15.1+dfsg-1 to 1.0+dfsg-1 in experimental, a large > number of vms > stopped working. > > 2. netbsd4 and netbsd5 > > both of these boot, but cannot find the pcnet network card, nor other > network cards supported by both qemu-kvm and netbsd. both the generic as > wlel as the generic-noacpi kernel have this behaviour.
I tried netbsd5.1 - its installation image (i386cd-5.1.iso) works just fine and recognizes several network adaptors qemu-kvm emulates, including pcnet and rtl8139. I booted the image, went to the shell, ifconfig the interface using local network, and did some in/out transfers - all works fine. I haven't tried installing it oro doing something more serious - since you said it does not _recognize_ the cards, -- here it not only recognizes them but is able to work with them. Command line: kvm -cdrom i386cd-5.1.iso -netdev type=tap,id=n -device rtl8139,netdev=n For 4.0 (i386cd-4.0.iso), I can't get ANY NIC adaptor to work at all, in any version of qemu-kvm. I started with 0.14 just to be sure, and tried 0.15 too. No combination allowed me to have any network adaptor in the vm. Meanwhile I found this: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2009/03/11/msg003272.html which suggests that 4.0 does not work even with rtl8139 (requiring kernel recompilation for which I've no expirence). I asked openbsd guys (#openbsd on freenode.net), hit several quite expirienced persons there, but nothing conclusive so far - we weren't able to get 4.0 to recognize any NIC at all, in qemu or qemu-kvm. They told me they used qemu (including 0.15) alot and it worked. > the netbsd 1.6 image downloadable from http://wiki.qemu.org/Download shows > the same problems, e.g. when started with: > > qemu -drive file=small.ffs -net nic,model=pcnet As I mentioned already I can't get this one to work at all, it drops to a shell somewhere during boot. In that shell i don't see any network adaptors at all (ifconfig -a shows lo0, ppp0 and ppp1, no matter which adaptor I told kvm to emulate). I tried in 0.15 and 0.14 versions of kvm too, with the same result. > downgrading to 0.15.1 fixes this. Not for me :( > 2. freebsd 7 and 8 > > when trying to mount the root filesystem, the kernel outputs only a > seemingly endless number of DMA timeout errors (both use ide), in about > 50% of all boots. downgrading makes them work. I'm installing 8.2 right now, lets see. > 3. openbsd 4.4 and openbsd 4.5 > > both of these end up in the kernel debugger after a "panic: pci_make_tag: > bad request", which sems to be an acpi-related function. This is a bug in qemu which is identified and fixed, will be fixed in next upload into debian. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/897771 for the details, and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/130695 for the fix. I verified and indeed, this change fixes the issue. Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
