Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-07 Thread Juergen Lock
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

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-07 Thread Nate Eldredge
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

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-05 Thread Frank Behrens
Nate Eldredge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 4 Dec 2008 14:43: ... pain to clean up. '-net tap' works fine, but requires root privileges and No. is more work to set up. Yes, and this must be as root, but you can use later the tap device as unprivileged user. (Isn't it a virtual network jack,

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to take the comments about testing ZFS to heart --- so I decided to try copying my 7.0 v6 ZFS configuration into a qemu instance and upgrading it. To do this, I carefully copied my UFS boot partition and my

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running the ports version, or a different version, and/or are you using kqemu (I've heard this was broken, in the past)? My group at Cisco has several issues with older versions of qemu for PPC and when we

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running the ports version, or a different version, and/or are you using kqemu (I've heard this was broken, in the past)? My group at Cisco

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Juergen Lock
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running the ports version, or a different version, and/or are you using kqemu (I've heard this was

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Juergen Lock
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:46:12PM +0100, I wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running the ports version, or a different

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Nate Eldredge
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

AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I decided to take the comments about testing ZFS to heart --- so I decided to try copying my 7.0 v6 ZFS configuration into a qemu instance and upgrading it. To do this, I carefully copied my UFS boot partition and my ZFS partion to a physical USB disk that I could put on a system to do the test.