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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/qemu_l4b.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/qemu_l4b.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..76522615e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/qemu_l4b.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +=== BSD-USER 4 LINUX + +Contact: Maksym Sobolyev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> + +Links: +link:https://github.com/sobomax/qemu-bsd-user-l4b[Project Page] URL: link:https://github.com/sobomax/qemu-bsd-user-l4b[] + +link:https://github.com/sobomax/qemu_l4b[Tooling] URL: link:https://github.com/sobomax/qemu_l4b[] + +The `bsd-user-4-linux` project ports BSD user-mode emulation for QEMU to Linux. +The primary goal is to enable unmodified FreeBSD binaries to run on modern Linux systems. +Additionally, the project aims to provide multi-platform container images with a functional FreeBSD environment and ready-to-use GitHub Actions templates. + +News: + +* Two new pull requests have been received since the initial project announcement: + ** Diagnostic output cleanup; + ** kqueue() support using libkqueue library on Linux. +* The latest set of changes has been pulled from the Warner's qemu-bsd-user project bringing Qemu version to 9.2.0 along with some fixes and improvements. + +Current Status: + +* The initial port successfully runs `make -jN buildworld`. +* Most command-line tools are working as expected (man:sh[1], man:bash[1], man:find[1], man:grep[1], man:git[1], man:clang[1], etc). +* A link:https://github.com/sobomax/qemu-bsd-user-l4b/actions[GitHub Actions pipeline] builds x86_64 emulation images for: + ** linux/386 + ** linux/amd64 + ** linux/arm/v5 + ** linux/arm64/v8 +* A pre-built Docker container with FreeBSD 14.1 binary world is created and pushed to the GitHub Container Registry. + ** link:https://ghcr.io/sobomax/qemu-bsd-user-l4b:latest-ubuntu-latest-freebsd141[FreeBSD Image @ GHCR] +* Special pre-built "admin" container with Linux user-mode qemu binary for the FreeBSD/amd64 emulation is also published at the GHCR. + ** link:https://ghcr.io/sobomax/qemu-bsd-user-l4b:latest-ubuntu-latest[FreeBSD binfmt Image @ GHCR] + +Next Steps: +* Bump FreeBSD version to 14.3; +* Rebase onto Qemu 10.0.x. + +How You Can Help: + +* Test with your preferred toolchain, report issues, or contribute fixes. +* Identify and implement missing system calls. +* Support us on link:https://patreon.com/sippylabs[Patreon]. + +Sponsor: Sippy Software, Inc. |