On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Juergen Lock wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:43:47PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Juergen Lock wrote:
I forgot to say the qemu-devel port (as well as the later snapshots I
posted about on -emulation) also support -curses, which shows the emulated
vga text(!)console on qemu's tty. This works quite well with FreeBSD guests
(even the isos) if you extend your xterm/whatever by one line (the default
vga textconsole is 80x25 instead of 80x24.)
As long as we're sharing tips about qemu:
I've recently been working with qemu on amd64 and have set up a Debian etch
i386 guest which is working well. I am using the qemu-devel and
kqemu-kmod-devel ports. I am not using -kernel-kqemu at the moment; I
thought I would get things working before trying to speed up.
Using qemu I've finally achieved my goal of being able to use flash on
FreeBSD/amd64 (in some sense :-O).
Actually at least on RELENG_7 and later the original www/linux-flashplugin9
+ www/nspluginwrapper don't work too bad at least for video sites these
days (on 6 and 7.0 you need a patch and there it probably doesn't quite
work on SMP because another patch concerning SMP can't be merged.) See
e.g. this thread on -emulation for more:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-October/005433.html
Thanks for the pointer. I will probably wait until 7.1 is out and ports
are defrosted, so I can go straight to flash10 and not to have to do
everything twice, but this information should be very helpful.
'-net tap' works fine, but requires root privileges and
is more work to set up.
Actually it doesn't require root privs to run, only to setup.
(Ok you _might_ need sudo to ifconfig the tap device and/or bridge
in the qemu-ifup script... But qemu itself can certainly run as user.)
Okay. I was being lazy and letting qemu do some of that work for me.
[*] Out of curiosity, I looked at some Unix Archive stuff and found the
identical code in BSD's Net2, circa 1991. It is identified in a comment as
a "quick hack" and adorned with several /* XXX */. Naturally the code and
the comments survive intact, 17 years later. :-(
This might be somewhat more understandable if you know that the original
slirp code was written many moons ago and only later resurrected for
emulation purposes. (It was originally invented for dialup users that
logged into shellservers' gettys via serial modem lines so they could
also use the box' inet connection locally before things like ppp were
available...)
Yep, I think I remember trying to use some slip implementation over a
serial modem once. It's just unfortunate that qemu chose that code for
their TCP/IP implementation rather than something else more modern. Not
that I'm volunteering to update it :)
--
Nate Eldredge
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