On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > I built the gentoo qemu package [1] with support for a couple of non-x86 > arches. Trying the sparc64 one, I installed FreeBSD-11.1 into it. It > kind of works, but: > > 1. It's very slow - I estimate about 5x-10x slower than an emulated x86_64, > also running FreeBSD-11.1. > > 2. 1 processor on the host (a 4-way Phenom) is always at 100%, even > when the guest is completely idle. This makes me think there is a > virtual interrupt line that is always on, and this probably is the cause > of #1. Again, this doesn't happen when the guest CPU is x86_64. > > 3. There is no emulated network device. This could be related to the > ne2k_pci issue mentioned at [2]. I'd be willing to debug this, _if_ it > were not for #1 and #2 ... > > anyone has a guess what is happening here? > > [1] > the one in gentoo "stable" i.e. app-emulation/qemu-2.10.0 > > [2] > https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC >
This may be unavoidable, but it would likely be best to report this on the QEMU tracker or mailing list. QEMU has a fairly sophisticated JIT compiler. Cheers, R0b0t1