Fixed by 67494323f2c782fe3e65c60529fe9dfa613fc500.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818647 Title: Getting segmentation fault when trying to boot FreeBSD Status in QEMU: Fix Committed Bug description: wkoszek@wkoszek:~/bin/qemu/qemu$ git log | head -1 commit c886edfb851c0c590d4e77f058f2ec8ed95ad1b5 wkoszek@wkoszek:~/o/freebsd/sys/boot/i386$ qemu-system-sparc64 --version QEMU emulator version 0.15.50, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard wkoszek@wkoszek:~/o/freebsd/sys/boot/i386$ uname -a Linux wkoszek 2.6.38-10-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:05:41 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Qemu built with default settings (./configure --prefix=<path> && make && make install) I run FreeBSD ISO image: /home/wkoszek/bin/qemu-dynamic/bin/qemu-system-sparc64 -m 1024 -cdrom ~/Pulpit/iso/FreeBSD-7.4-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso -hda ~/Pulpit/iso/freebsd_sparc64.qcow2 -nographic -boot d Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0 kernel cmdline CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jul 20 2011 21:17 Type 'help' for detailed information Trying cdrom:f... Not a bootable ELF image Loading a.out image... Loaded 7680 bytes entry point is 0x4000 Jumping to entry point 0000000000004000 for type 0000000000000005... switching to new context: entry point 0x4000 stack 0x00000000ffe86b49 >> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block Boot path: cdrom:f Boot loader: /boot/loader Consoles: Open Firmware console Booting with sun4u support. Boot path set to cdrom:a FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0 (r...@warner.cse.buffalo.edu, Fri Feb 18 05:38:31 UTC 2011) bootpath="cdrom:a" Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x8d1f48+0x82f88 syms=[0x8+0x88ec0+0x8+0x76966] | Unimplemented service milliseconds ([0] -- [1]) Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Unimplemented service milliseconds ([0] -- [1]) Unimplemented service milliseconds ([0] -- [1]) Unimplemented service milliseconds ([0] -- [1]) Unimplemented service milliseconds ([0] -- [1]) Unimplemented service milliseconds ([0] -- [1]) Unimplemented service milliseconds ([0] -- [1]) I press CTRL + C and I get out of the looped warning about "unimplemented service". Then I see: Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK boot jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0078000. BOOTUnhandled Exception 0x0000000000000034 PC = 0x00000000c0637454 NPC = 0x00000000c0637458 I wanted to start FreeBSD debugging here - I pressed 'CTRL+A c', I was dropped to the monitor. FRom the monitor I typed: Stopping execution QEMU 0.15.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) x 0xc0078000 00000000c0078000: Cannot access memory (qemu) x 0x00000000c0637454 00000000c0637454: Cannot access memory (qemu) x 0x00000000c0637458 00000000c0637458: Cannot access memory (qemu) xp 0xc0078000 Segmentation fault IMO it shouldn't have crashed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/818647/+subscriptions