Re: linuxulator update
On Saturday 13 March 2010 03:35:36 Alex Hornung wrote: > Hi all, > > As you may already know, I've been working on an extensive update of our > linux emulation layer over the past week. Just now I've committed this > update and you can expect it to make it into the 2.6 release. > > I've tested it with Apache Tomcat 6, Java, Opera and Acrobat Reader, but I > would welcome more testing; as a matter of fact, as much testing as > possible so we can take care of possible issues before the release. I have a bunch of programs I write in Linux and rsync to the DragonFly box. I'll see how they run. Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.
Re: linuxulator update
That brings a question to mind. Will VirtualBox run on DragonFlyBSD? OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris are officially supported by VirtualBox as per their website, and though it's not mentioned on the site, Solaris, PCBSD and NetBSD are virtual machine options in VirtualBox when creating a virtual machine. > Hi all, > > As you may already know, I've been working on an extensive update of our > linux emulation layer over the past week. Just now I've committed this > update and you can expect it to make it into the 2.6 release. > > I've tested it with Apache Tomcat 6, Java, Opera and Acrobat Reader, but I > would welcome more testing; as a matter of fact, as much testing as > possible > so we can take care of possible issues before the release. > > While I also tried getting Flash running, there still seems to be an issue > with it. Given my little familiarity with Flash, I'd appreciate some > insight > on this. I've tried it also with the standalone player of flash9 and a > local > .swf, but the problem remains; the swf doesn't seem to get loaded. The > browser plugin says "movie not loaded" when doing right click on it. > > Over the next few months I'll slowly clean up the code a bit more, > breaking > out machine independent bits from sys/emulation/linux/i386 and organizing > header files better, to make it easier to port to amd64 eventually. This > is > of no priority to me, so if anyone wants to get this working soon, they > can > work on it. Of course, feel free to contact me if you have any queries > about > this or anything else regarding the linuxulator. > > Regards, > Alex Hornung > >
linuxulator update
Hi all, As you may already know, I've been working on an extensive update of our linux emulation layer over the past week. Just now I've committed this update and you can expect it to make it into the 2.6 release. I've tested it with Apache Tomcat 6, Java, Opera and Acrobat Reader, but I would welcome more testing; as a matter of fact, as much testing as possible so we can take care of possible issues before the release. While I also tried getting Flash running, there still seems to be an issue with it. Given my little familiarity with Flash, I'd appreciate some insight on this. I've tried it also with the standalone player of flash9 and a local .swf, but the problem remains; the swf doesn't seem to get loaded. The browser plugin says "movie not loaded" when doing right click on it. Over the next few months I'll slowly clean up the code a bit more, breaking out machine independent bits from sys/emulation/linux/i386 and organizing header files better, to make it easier to port to amd64 eventually. This is of no priority to me, so if anyone wants to get this working soon, they can work on it. Of course, feel free to contact me if you have any queries about this or anything else regarding the linuxulator. Regards, Alex Hornung
Re: linuxulator update
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:10:15PM -, Alex Hornung wrote: > Hi, > > With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software > that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 > [1] for more details). > > To actually be able to update the linuxulator, it would be very helpful to > have LTP (Linux Test Project)[2] working on DragonFly. This is a relatively > simple task that many end-users (as in non-developers) could do, and which > would make it possible to identify what exactly we are lacking, what needs > updating and once it is updated, directly testing to see if it works as > expected. LTP would be compiled on some linux machine, and then made to run > on our current linuxulator to identify these issues. > > If anyone would step up to do this task, we could immediately start updating > the code with considerably less effort than without LTP. So please, if > someone wants to start contributing without actual coding, this is a great > opportunity which would result in great benefit for everyone. > > Cheers, > Alex Hornung > > > [1]: http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1141 > [2]: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ After finally reading this thread, we had a friend compile ltp-intermediate-20100119 on SUSE 11.2. We have a strong interest in getting the linuxulator updated so we can get the Xilinx gate array compiler up and running on Dragonfly. I could upload the built binary of ltp as a tar file to leaf if anybody wants me to. Regards, Vince
Re: linuxulator update
I got a secondary partition with Linux 2.6.31-14-generic where i can build. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:59, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 09:10:15 Alex Hornung wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software >> that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 >> [1] for more details). > > Do you mean it's a moa? ;) > > Pierre > > -- > I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales. > -- http://dfbsd.trackbsd.org.ar
Re: linuxulator update
On Friday 27 November 2009 09:10:15 Alex Hornung wrote: > Hi, > > With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software > that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 > [1] for more details). Do you mean it's a moa? ;) Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.
RE: linuxulator update
Pierre, Any date is fine. This has been waiting for years, it's not about two weeks or a month anymore. Thanks for the interest in doing this! In any case, if someone else also wants to work on it, say so here so the effort is easier to coordinate. Don't be put off by the fact that someone already has announced his interest. It's all about collaboration here, and several people might get a usable result faster/easier. Cheers, Alex Hornung -Original Message- From: users-err...@crater.dragonflybsd.org [mailto:users-err...@crater.dragonflybsd.org] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: 27 November 2009 14:34 To: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org Subject: Re: linuxulator update On Friday 27 November 2009 09:10:15 Alex Hornung wrote: > Hi, > > With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software > that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 > [1] for more details). > > To actually be able to update the linuxulator, it would be very helpful to > have LTP (Linux Test Project)[2] working on DragonFly. This is a relatively > simple task that many end-users (as in non-developers) could do, and which > would make it possible to identify what exactly we are lacking, what needs > updating and once it is updated, directly testing to see if it works as > expected. LTP would be compiled on some linux machine, and then made to run > on our current linuxulator to identify these issues. > > If anyone would step up to do this task, we could immediately start > updating the code with considerably less effort than without LTP. So > please, if someone wants to start contributing without actual coding, this > is a great opportunity which would result in great benefit for everyone. I could do this, but would have to wait until after December 8, as I'm still in school. Is that okay? I have Linux 2.6.20 and DF 2.5.1. Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
RE: linuxulator update
Diablo JDK has never needed the linuxemu, but I think it is built with it. What I was referring to was the official sun jre/jdk. In any case, jre/jdk is just one of many things that potentially use linuxemu. As far as OpenJDK goes, that involves getting gcj, icedtea, etc working which is a considerable effort. But again, this is not only about java but in general about the linuxulator. Cheers, Alex Hornung
Re: linuxulator update
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Alex Hornung wrote: > Hi, > > With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software > that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 > [1] for more details). > JRE/JDK on FreeBSD donot seem to have linuxulator dependency. %pkg_info | grep jdk diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_5 Java Development Kit 1.6.0_07.02 How is the idea of exploring . Apache Harmony 5.0 M11 for JDK/JRE 5.0 compatibility . OpenJDK7 b75 for JDK/JRE 7.x compatibility thanks Saifi.
Re: linuxulator update
On Friday 27 November 2009 09:10:15 Alex Hornung wrote: > Hi, > > With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software > that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 > [1] for more details). > > To actually be able to update the linuxulator, it would be very helpful to > have LTP (Linux Test Project)[2] working on DragonFly. This is a relatively > simple task that many end-users (as in non-developers) could do, and which > would make it possible to identify what exactly we are lacking, what needs > updating and once it is updated, directly testing to see if it works as > expected. LTP would be compiled on some linux machine, and then made to run > on our current linuxulator to identify these issues. > > If anyone would step up to do this task, we could immediately start > updating the code with considerably less effort than without LTP. So > please, if someone wants to start contributing without actual coding, this > is a great opportunity which would result in great benefit for everyone. I could do this, but would have to wait until after December 8, as I'm still in school. Is that okay? I have Linux 2.6.20 and DF 2.5.1. Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
linuxulator update
Hi, With our outdated linux emu (linuxulator) we can't run most of the software that can run on FreeBSD, such as newer jre/jdk, ... ( see bug report 1141 [1] for more details). To actually be able to update the linuxulator, it would be very helpful to have LTP (Linux Test Project)[2] working on DragonFly. This is a relatively simple task that many end-users (as in non-developers) could do, and which would make it possible to identify what exactly we are lacking, what needs updating and once it is updated, directly testing to see if it works as expected. LTP would be compiled on some linux machine, and then made to run on our current linuxulator to identify these issues. If anyone would step up to do this task, we could immediately start updating the code with considerably less effort than without LTP. So please, if someone wants to start contributing without actual coding, this is a great opportunity which would result in great benefit for everyone. Cheers, Alex Hornung [1]: http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1141 [2]: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/
