[Qemu-devel] Re: [FreeSBIE LVC] freesbie in qemu...

[Matteo Riondato]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:49:25PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>  I tried FreeSBIE LVC (see announcement here:
>       http://www.riondabsd.net/2006/10/13/announce-freesbie-lvc-is-out/
> ) in qemu today (with kqemu), and noticed a few things (stated X with
> startx):
> 
> 1. xfdesktop+Xorg+python together constantly kept the cpu busy (I've
> seen this with earlier versions of FreeSBIE too, just run `top' on
> a shell to check)

Yes. This is gdesklets' fault. I'm planning to remove gdesklets and
use something else.

> 2. as a result, firefox takes ages to startup, and when it finally
> starts it notices a ssl key out of date because the clock seems to be
> way in the future (somewhere in 2087!?)

MM..this can be qemu's fault. Anyway, I think I'll enable ntpd at
boottime.

>, and then it displays the
> `firefox updated' page.

Yes. My fault. It will be solved.

> 3. and there were a few (I think) `clock went backwards' messages on
> the (guest's) console.

This is qemu's fault. I have no doubts about it.

Thanks for the report, it is much appreciated. 
I hope you'll enjoy FreeSBIE EW even more.
Best regards
-- 
Matteo Riondato
FreeBSD Committer (http://www.freebsd.org)
G.U.F.I. Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org)
FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)

pgpUcq0Ev6dBI.pgp
Description: PGP signature