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Diffstat (limited to 'emulators/qemu/pkg-message')
| -rw-r--r-- | emulators/qemu/pkg-message | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/emulators/qemu/pkg-message b/emulators/qemu/pkg-message index acdc84aa3e13..ec55725696fa 100644 --- a/emulators/qemu/pkg-message +++ b/emulators/qemu/pkg-message @@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ use qemu -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user or tap ... enable the emulated rtl8139 timer by building the port with RTL8139_TIMER enabled. (the rtl8139c+ that model=rtl8139 emulates needs less cpu than qemu's default ne2k nic which is driven by ed(4), it has not been made default -only because it may not work with all guests yet.) +only because it may not work with all guests yet. btw qemu now also can +emulate a few intel eepro100 nics which seem to be a tad more efficient +even, and at least i82557b works without tweaks for FreeBSD guests - driven +by fxp(4) - and Linux guests too.) - if you get repeated `atapi_poll called!' console messages with FreeBSD guests or other weird cdrom problems then thats probably because the guest has atapicam loaded, which for reasons still to be determined has problems @@ -69,6 +72,13 @@ you please use tuntap for now. Scott Robbins posted a tap howto for http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1563 and one for 6 and 5(?) is here: http://acidos.bandwidth-junkies.net/index.php?Sect=qemu +- perhaps it should be noted that if you want to use qemu with -m 512 +or larger on i386 hosts you need to increase the kern.maxdsiz tunable +in loader.conf(5) since the default is 512 MB, and qemu needs memory for +itself also. +- kqemu seems to be broken on amd64 SMP hosts atm (causing the host +to panic), if this affects you you can either use an UP host kernel as a +workaround or disable kqemu. - qemu now uses aio at least for ide dma, so if you get `Invalid system call' crashes that is because aio is not (kld)loaded. ==== |