Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu targets actually work? (was: Which qemu ports actually work?)

[Andreas Färber]

Am 26.10.2010 um 18:38 schrieb Torbjorn Granlund:

>         fbsd-8_1       nbsd-5_0_2    debian-5      gentoo        hurd
>
> sparc      n/a          OK            n/a           n/a           n/a
>
> sparc64    fw crash     fw crash      kern crash    black fb      n/a
>
> ppc        early hang   fw crash      OK            kern hang     n/a
>
> ppc64      early panic  fw crash      kern hang     kern hang     n/a
>
> i386       OK           OK            OK                           
> installs,
>                                                                  non- 
> booting
> x86_64     OK           OK            OK

> Is this what I can expect from qemu today?  Are the goals of the qemu
> project to make the various ports operational for running these OS's?

You seem to mean QEMU emulation targets, not QEMU ports.

QEMU provides a machine emulation. Only some of its users are involved  
in ports of particular operating systems. So no, it is not the primary  
goal of QEMU to make, e.g., FreeBSD 8.1 work, but any research why it  
doesn't and, best, patches to fix/improve it are welcome.

You didn't mention which version of QEMU you tried. The Git version is  
usually ahead of any stable release.
For ppc and sparc in particular, QEMU uses an OpenBIOS firmware, of  
which even newer versions are available from its SVN repository. (See  
the -bios option)

Andreas