Re: [Qemu-devel] vmware puts up specs for it's disk format

2006-04-03 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:23:41AM +0200, Udo 'Robos' Puetz wrote: > At least this could be used for qemu to import the vmdk images... > Cheers > Robos > This is already supported, as is creating them and using them directly. (I was amazed when I first found out as well.) -- Infinite complexity

[Qemu-devel] vmware puts up specs for it's disk format

2006-04-03 Thread Udo 'Robos' Puetz
Hi List. Since it hasn't been discussed on the list: vmware wants to establish their disk format as a sort of standard and therefore gives away their specs for it - with specific mention of gpl projects. The article where I found this is here, in german: http://www.golem.de/0604/44434.html At the e

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add gcc 4.0 support

2006-04-03 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:42:22PM +0200, Dirk Behme wrote: > Thiemo Seufer wrote: > >Updated version, note that this is still not suitable for CVS since > >x86 fails to build with it. > > fyi: for me, arm-softmmu fails as well: > By x86, he probably means x86 hosts, not x86-softmmu All targets

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add gcc 4.0 support

2006-04-03 Thread Dirk Behme
Thiemo Seufer wrote: Updated version, note that this is still not suitable for CVS since x86 fails to build with it. fyi: for me, arm-softmmu fails as well: .../qemu/qemu-snapshot-2006-03-30_23/target-arm/op.c gcc: unrecognized option '-preferred-stack-boundary=2' /qemu/qemu-snapshot-2006-03-3

Re: [Qemu-devel] many kernel threads in same process

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Brook
On Monday 03 April 2006 16:20, Philippe Laporte wrote: > Hi, > Is it well-known that QEMU cannot yet handle processes with several > kernel threads? Yes. qemu has partial support for threads, but it doesn't work very well. Paul ___ Qemu-devel mail

[Qemu-devel] many kernel threads in same process

2006-04-03 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hi, Is it well-known that QEMU cannot yet handle processes with several kernel threads? I'm trying to run a VM in scratchbox and it crashes a bit after the start. Works fine with a real target. This was two weeks ago, I don't have the exact console output. I can come up with it it will hel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Missing ARMv6 instructions?

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Brook
> IMHO majority of embedded devices is still ARM7TDMI based and this > instruction set (ARMv4 IIRC) should be emulated well in Qemu. Depends which market segments you're aiming at. If you're aiming at well established legacy or cheap, low-end hardware then yes armv4t is fine. If you want to use

Re: [Qemu-devel] Missing ARMv6 instructions?

2006-04-03 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karel Gardas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Jamie Lokier wrote: : : > Chris Wilson wrote: : >>> I find it strange that ARM would restrict emulation of their architecture : >>> -- that could hardly pose a threat to their business, I wou