[Qemu-discuss] A few bugs and updating QEMU

[Jake Thomas]

I have QEMU 0.14.0 installed, which is the most recent version I can get with 
"sudo apt-get install qemu".

I have tried to compile the latest QEMU out of the git as well as compile the 
latest released tarball.

I could not get either the tarball or the git to compile, not even with 
--disable-werror.

QEMU gets hung up on the ISOLINUX bootloader, thus I cannot boot the ArchBang 
installer iso. This is a known bug.

Also, "--cpu ?" doesn't give a list of supported cpus to emulate/kvmerize, but 
"--cpu ?d" does. Same story with "-M ?". "-M ?" doesn't work but "-M ?d" does.
This is also known.

Also, when I boot the ArchBang 64-bit installer (via Grub), unless I specify 
--cpu kvm64 it does not work. I'm guessing it doesn't work because it goes into 
32-bit mode unless I tell it otherwise.

I think that is a bug because the default cpu option on a 64-bit machine with 
VT-x enabled and kvm installed and running in Linux should be --cpu kvm64. Why 
should I have to tell it that?


Due to these 3 bugs, I would like to update QEMU, but I can't do that because I 
can't get past make in my compiling efforts.

How do you folks compile QEMU? What ./configure options do you all use?


Help would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time,
Jake