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Re: [Qemu-devel] Running QEMU on FreeBSD


From: Antony T Curtis
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Running QEMU on FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:50:13 +0100

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 08:25, Markus Niemistö wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 2004 00:09:16 +0100
> Antony T Curtis <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Sure... I'll generate some diffs soon...
> > Meanwhile, I've done a few more mods so that QEMU can use FreeBSD's
> > devices... so that I can specify put "-cdrom /dev/cdrom" on the
> > command line - successfully booted off a FreeBSD install cdrom :D
> 
> The patch you sent doesn't deal with these issues, right? Could you
> please make a patch and send it to the list. I've occasionally tried to
> fix using devices but the patches I've made worked only partially.
> 
> Was the problem with CDs due to qemu not reading 2048 blocks or was
> there something else?

Here is the diffs I am using... What it fixes is the following...

It uses the FreeBSD ioctls to determine the size of the device and when
reading the 'header', it reads 2048 bytes. 

A similar fix has to be done to qemu-mkcow for it to work.
-- 
Antony T Curtis <address@hidden>

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