Re: [Xen-devel] Qemu-0.8.1 based ioemu preview available

[yhlu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>]

anyone tested that on x86_64?

it will install qmu-dm to /usr/lib/xen/bin instead of /usr/lib64/xen/bin.

even I copy that to lib64, the hvm will stop after imaged is loaded.

YH

On 6/30/06, Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A preview of the qemu 0.8.1 based ioemu is now available at:
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/chris/add-ioemu-new and
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/chris/enable-ioemu-new
>
> In addition to these two patches, you need a copy of qemu-0.8.1 and
> place it into tools/ioemu-new -- one option is the tarball available at
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/chris/ioemu-cvs-qemu-0.8.1.tar.bz2 which
> extracts to tools/ioemu-new.
>
> The add-ioemu-new patch includes all the changes required to turn qemu
> 0.8.1 into ioemu and the enable-ioemu-new patch changes the
> tools/Makefile to build ioemu-new instead of old ioemu.  The
> enable-ioemu-new patch also includes changes to the tools to adjust the
> arguments passed to qemu (network device selection and vnc port
> selection).
>
> Known limitations:
> - No support for vncconnect
> - No support for summagraphics
> - SDL support not tested
> - No support for ia64
>
> Major changes:
> - Doesn't use libvncserver but uses the vnc support from qemu 0.8.1
> - Includes usb support (same as backported to old ioemu recently)
> - Doesn't include pcnet network driver but rtl8139
>
> The main reason for wanting to move to this new codebase is that the
> current one is badly hacked, making it hard to include updates from
> qemu.  The new codebase is maintained as a patchqueue against qemu so
> that updates to newer qemu versions are easy.  The patchqueue and the
> repository containing qemu are available at:
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/chris/xs-tools-ioemu.hg
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/chris/xs-tools-ioemu.pq.hg
> Only patches upto 00-last should be applied, all later patches are only
> there for reference, containing changes which still need to be updated
> to qemu 0.8.1.  It's not entirely clear to me what some of these changes
> do and they will only be added if people request them.
>
> The new ioemu "works for us" for running Windows guests and we're now
> looking for wider testing before we check it into xen-unstable shortly.
>
> Thanks!
> Christian
>
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