> On Nov 11, 2018, at 4:35 PM, qemu-devel-requ...@nongnu.org wrote: > > It seems that Cocoa checks are stricter on Mojave and some callbacks that > worked from non-GUI thread on High Sierra are no longer working. > > The fixes included here are: > > * Deferring qemu_main() to another thread so that the actual main thread is > reserved for the Cocoa UI; it also removes blocking from > applicationDidFinishLoading: delegate. I beleive this alone caused complete > UI blockage on Mojave. > * Deferring UI-related updates in callbacks to the UI thread using > invokeOnMainThread helper function. This function uses DDInvocationGrabber > object courtesy of Dave Dribin, licensed under MIT license. > Here?s relevant blog post for his code: > https://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2008/05/22/invoke_on_main_thread/ > > NSInvocation is used here instead of plain > performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: because we want to be > able to pass non-id types to the handlers.
Also I realized that the only way we could call cocoa_refresh() from performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: would be to add it to a class. > These changes are ought to work on OSX 10.6, although I don?t have a machine > handy to test it. > > Fixes https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1802684 > > From 8f86e30f3710d782d78dccdbe7a1564ae79220c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Berkus Decker <berkus+github@metta.systems> > Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:58:17 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ui/cocoa: Defer qemu to another thread, leaving main > thread for the UI <snip> I tried both patch 1 and 2 together on Mac OS 10.12. Both qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-ppc do not load their BIOS files. All I see is a black window each time. There is no indication of anything loading. The Machine menu doesn't populate with devices. Sorry.
