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 -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.
