Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: 1. Any option should be settable either in the config file or command line. In other words, the user should not be forced to use a config file. This is useful for management programs who keep all options in an internal database, and for users who can experiment via

Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem Running QEMU, and passing new commands

2007-03-04 Thread maestro
Hi, I have successfully integrated the statistical simulation package SimPoint with QEMU. no clue what simpoint is snip I am curious where I would edit QEMU to look for such commands, some point in the code where I can see what command is passed to QEMU, and do something such as if

[Qemu-devel] Proposal: option for CPU selection

2007-03-04 Thread J. Mayer
Here's a patch that allow the user to specify a specific CPU model/variant on the command line. This makes different CPU tests less painfull, as the current code need a recompilation for this. This patch only has an actual effect when using the PowerPC target, as I don't want to break other

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
Paul Brook wrote: Out of curiosity, why? If the options are store in some database, as is likely, surely it is easier to generate a longish command line than to generate a unique name for a file, remove it if it already exists, write out the data, launch qemu, and clean up the file later? And

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Paul Brook
On Sunday 04 March 2007 11:48, Avi Kivity wrote: Paul Brook wrote: Out of curiosity, why? If the options are store in some database, as is likely, surely it is easier to generate a longish command line than to generate a unique name for a file, remove it if it already exists, write out

[Qemu-devel] Bugs. Patches. Feedback.

2007-03-04 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
I want to help qemu project, but some patches which I post to the mail list have ignored. I guess that a open source project should have faster feedback. Subject of posts which have still ignored: [PATCH] syscall mincore [PATCH] syscall uselib [BUG] [PATCH] Syscall gethostname fix [BUG] [PATCH]

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: 1. Any option should be settable either in the config file or command line. In other words, the user should not be forced to use a config file. This is useful for management programs who keep all options in an internal database, and for users who

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add -name option

2007-03-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: This option helps differentiate between guests when running more than one instance of QEMU. It adds a string to the SDL window title and to the VNC server title. Having a name associated with a guest is also terribly useful for management tools as

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
Chris Wilson wrote: Hi Avi, On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I think we should still provide the ability to set the most common options via the command line. I'm also fine with specifying single options on the command line. I suspect though that being able to

Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal: option for CPU selection

2007-03-04 Thread Fabrice Bellard
OK. Except that I would prefer -cpu instead of -C. Regards, Fabrice. J. Mayer wrote: Here's a patch that allow the user to specify a specific CPU model/variant on the command line. This makes different CPU tests less painfull, as the current code need a recompilation for this. This patch only

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add -name option

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:11:15AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: This option helps differentiate between guests when running more than one instance of QEMU. It adds a string to the SDL window title and to the VNC server title. Having a name

[Qemu-devel] EFI BIOS

2007-03-04 Thread Fabrice Bellard
Hi, There is now an EFI BIOS for QEMU thanks to Tristan Gingold. It is available from the download section of the web site (http://bellard.org/qemu/efi-bios.tar.bz2). It can only be used with the CVS version of QEMU. Fabrice. ___ Qemu-devel

Re: [Qemu-devel] EFI BIOS

2007-03-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hmm, What guest platform/OS supports it? Not XP or Vista iirc... Thanks, Hetz On 3/5/07, Fabrice Bellard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is now an EFI BIOS for QEMU thanks to Tristan Gingold. It is available from the download section of the web site

Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal: option for CPU selection

2007-03-04 Thread J. Mayer
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 19:18 +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote: OK. Except that I would prefer -cpu instead of -C. OK; I choosed -C for symetry with the machine selection option (-M) but -cpu is OK for me... J. Mayer wrote: Here's a patch that allow the user to specify a specific CPU

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-03-04 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 03/03/07, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrzej zaborowski wrote: Hi, On 20/02/07, Christopher Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok FreeBSD Support round one.. Be gentle this is my first attempt at working with the rest of this community.. Files it modifies and the