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
