[Qemu-discuss] Can QEMU be used on Mac OS X to emulate a one-core CPU?

2013-08-17 Thread Wine Bug
On Macs it's not possible to set CPU affinity, and there are programs which have issues on multi-core systems. That's why I wonder whether QEMU could be used (in my case I'd like to use it with Wine) to emulate a one-core environment. If that's possible, what about performance--should I choose a v

[Qemu-discuss] use DMA engines in the virtual machine

2013-08-17 Thread Zheng Da
Hello, I try to develop a kernel module of using the DMA engine in the Intel processors. I have enabled kvm. When I boot the virtual machine, I found the DMA engine isn't enabled. I tried different CPU models, and it seems none of them has the DMA engine. The native processor is Xeon E5-462 and i

Re: [Qemu-discuss] use DMA engines in the virtual machine

2013-08-17 Thread Tony Su
Although I wouldn't know anything about this personally and even more so because you're running on somewhat unusual hardware. A Google search "qemu dma" returns several useful results, of which I think the following might help in your situation http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14076153/kvm-dma-w

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Can QEMU be used on Mac OS X to emulate a one-core CPU?

2013-08-17 Thread Tony Su
I don't run on a Mac, but a Google search verifies you can't set processor affinity. But, it does look like you can do the next best thing which is to re-nice. So, you won't be able to set a hard restriction on CPU resources but you can adjust related priority even to the extreme which can ens

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Can QEMU be used on Mac OS X to emulate a one-core CPU?

2013-08-17 Thread Wine Bug
I want for example to run Soul Reaver without cracking sound (this bug appears on multi-core systems). Re-nice rather would not help. WineBuG

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Can QEMU be used on Mac OS X to emulate a one-core CPU?

2013-08-17 Thread Tony Su
Maybe multiboot another OS? Every other OS I know of supports processor affinity, this was something Apple apparently went out of their way to remove. Tony On Aug 17, 2013 4:59 PM, "Wine Bug" wrote: > I want for example to run Soul Reaver without cracking sound (this bug > appears on multi-core