Re: [Qemu-devel] Which qemu ports actually work?

[Blue Swirl]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Torbjorn Granlund <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am not sure this inquiry is appropriate for this mailing list.  But at
> the qemu web site, this is the only mailing list mentioned.
>
> I would like to run as many OS's as possible under as many processors as
> possible, using qemu.  Results thus far has not been very encouraging,
> though.
>
> Here is my test matrix:
>
>         fbsd-8_1       nbsd-5_0_2    debian-5      gentoo        hurd
>
> sparc      n/a          OK            n/a           n/a           n/a

OpenBSD also works.

About old versions, Debian 4 was the last version for Sparc32, it will
work. Gentoo 1.4 and 2004.1 had Sparc32 versions and those also boot.
Some Solaris versions should boot but crash (this is related to
OpenBIOS).

> sparc64    fw crash     fw crash      kern crash    black fb      n/a

That's about it, though I don't think fw crashes.

> ppc        early hang   fw crash      OK            kern hang     n/a
>
> ppc64      early panic  fw crash      kern hang     kern hang     n/a

Gentoo 2008.0 CD boots to installer, I don't know if it crashes later.

> i386       OK           OK            OK                          installs,
>                                                                  non-booting
> x86_64     OK           OK            OK
>
> These are results from multiple attempts and google searches for what
> other people have done.  Unfortunately, there aren't many matches,
> except that the various error messages I get have been experienced by
> several other people.
>
> Is this what I can expect from qemu today?  Are the goals of the qemu
> project to make the various ports operational for running these OS's?
> If yes, what is the time frame?
>
> It would be nice with a status page (there is a blank such page already,
> I mean a non-blank page...) informing about the status of the various
> ports.  A naive user--such as myself--tends to assume that a released
> port actually works.  It takes many hours of poorly used effort before
> one can conclude that e.g., sparc64 does not work at all.

The old web site had a status page, but we lost that when switching to Wiki.