Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Compilation errors on BSD

[André Braga]

On 1/7/06, andrzej zaborowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hiyas,
> Today I tried compiling QEMU on a FreeBSD computer and it spitted at
> me a bunch of errors, all of them being results of trivial differences
> in system headers. The following patch fixed them and I got a working
> QEMU 0.8.0, in case anyone's interested. There was also another
> trivial change needed to get KQEMU working (but this I will keep for
> myself, to be alright with the license). As far as I have checked,
> compiling on OpenBSD would require these same changes.
> Greetings,
> Andrew

Sorry if what I'm about to say sounds like a cold shower to you,
but... QEMU as available in the ports collection has patches to work
around this, and even includes some interesting hacks (namely the DMA
patch) to make QEMU more responsive.

Same goes to KQEMU, which is in the ports collection as well.

Still, thanks for bringing this up again. I really think the QEMU
build system should support BSDs out of the box and these patches have
been available for quite some time; I fail to realise why Fabrice
hasn't integrated them yet.



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