[Qemu-devel] qemu and solaris

[Paul Jakma]

Hi,

I've gotten Solaris 10 build 60 (i86pc) to boot under qemu 0.6.0 and 
recent CVS, runs quite nicely :). Some issues though:

- PCI IDE does not work. Drive access times out and pci-ide 
(eventually) will print out error code=0x03.

With the ISA 'ata' driver it works fine.

- ne2k networking does not work with the (non-Sun) 'ni' driver. The 
driver (eventually) prints errors about 'Tx timeout' and resets the 
card, ad infinitum. This might be a problem with the ni driver, 
though I believe

- I've had better luck with Andrew's patch to add support for AMD 
PCNet emulation (Solaris provides it's own PCNet driver, pcn). This 
works, and ICMP between solaris and host works, however I can not 
telnet or ssh to the host, nor does DNS work within the host. If i 
snoop the 'pcn0' interface in solaris, it prints errors of the form:

        'IP truncated: header missing X bytes'

Where X is typically 10, 12,14 or 17. Not had a chance to debug this 
further.

- vl.c::tun_open() writes 'tun%d' to (struct ifreq).ifname, the 
TUNSETIFF ioctl does not appear to update the ifreq ifname on my 
system (FC2 2.6.7-1.486 x86_64 kernel), is it supposed to? tun_open 
appears to follow the example in kernel 
Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt, but ifname is not modified. Nor 
does struct ifreq ifname get updated if i leave it blank before the 
ioctl. Strange. I had to change 'tun%d' to 'tun0' to get things to 
work (otherwise tun%d is passed to the ifup script).

- there appear to be some keyboard problems.

1. If you switch console to the qemu console, it is very difficult to 
get back to the 'host' console, you have to repeatedly press 
ctrl+shift+f1 and eventually you get lucky and it switches.

2. I have the xkbd ctrl:swapcaps option set. So ctrl and caps-lock on 
my PC keyboard are swapped. However, in the emulated host, holding 
ctrl (ie the key marked caps-lock on my keyboard) turns on caps-lock 
(but it isnt sticky, releasing ctrl turns off caps-lock), pressing 
caps-lock (ie marked 'ctrl' on my PC keyboard) holds 'ctrl' on the 
host and it is sticky (as caps-lock would be). Eg, to type ctrl-c in 
the host i have to do:

press the key marked 'control' (which sets caps-lock on the real 
host X server), press c, press the key marked 'control' again (to 
unset caps-lock, which the qemu host thinks is ctrl).

3. caps-lock gets stuck on sometimes if i press ctrl+shift (ctrl as 
in the X meaning of ctrl, which is marked caps-lock on my keyboard) 
to leave pointer grab and return to it. Pressing ctrl and shift 
independently and leaving/entering screen grab a few times eventually 
fixes this. I'm guessing this is related to 2 and the general 
confusion ctrl:swapcaps seems to cause for SDL/qemu.

- The Solaris x86 Xserver works perfectly with 16bit colour depth and 
GD54xx. However, many pixmaps are displayed incorrectly with depth 
8bpp. No idea whether this is a Solaris or qemu problem.

However, other than that, Solaris 10 works very well under Qemu. The 
only real problem is the inability to get networking working. From 
what I gather Qemu is not able to redirect serial0 to a pty, correct? 
Because otherwise I could setup ppp between the solaris qemu host and 
the native host.

regards,
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