Re: [Qemu-devel] Clarification about qemu-fast (was segfaults in fc1)

[Antony T Curtis]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:03, Thomas Munn wrote:
> I would suggest that the documentation perhaps have large letters so
> people won't have to go through the hell that I did.  Basically, the
> "qemu-fast" patch is only for oses inside of the main os (I know it
> says it "guest" in docs), and NOT to be applied to main os!  You might
> want to include a warning so other people who aren't developers won't
> try applying this patch to their main kernel.  So Perhaps:
>  
> Warning:  The qemu-fast patch should NOT be applied to the "host" os,
> (e.g. the main os) as it will impair the functionality of qemu by
> causing segfaults and all kinds of other nasty stuff.  Only apply this
> when using linux inside of qemu-fast.  
>  
> You also might want to further clarify the purposes of qemu-fast and
> its ilk, when not to use etc.

I have patched it to compile under FreeBSD... but I do not know how I
should test/debug it ...
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Antony T Curtis <address@hidden>