Hello DFlyers,
I just noticed from the Phoronix news [1], that QEMU upstream are dropping supports of some host systems in the 2.9 release [2], and DragonFly BSD is one of them: > This release includes changes to the configure script so that it will > now report some host operating systems and platforms as "unsupported". > These are host setups which we do not have access to and are thus > unable to test. They will continue to work in this 2.9 release > (though configure will warn you about the unsupported status), but > in a future QEMU release we may drop support for those hosts unless > somebody volunteers to help us with maintaining them (and can provide > build/CI machines). The list of unsupported host systems are: * ia64 (architecture) * GNU/kFreeBSD * DragonFly BSD * NetBSD * OpenBSD * Solaris * AIX * Haiku Note that one of NetBSD developer already volunteered to maintain the NetBSD support in QEMU. As far as I known, QEMU may be the only emulator that works well on DragonFly BSD, therefore, it would be great to have better DFly support in QEMU. Somebody interested may have a further look at this. [1] Phoronix: NetBSD Looking to Improve QEMU Support: https://phoronix.com/sca n.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-Better-NetBSD [2] QEMU: Warning of unsupported host systems: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/ 2.9#Warning_of_unsupported_host_systems [3] NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/n etbsd_maintainer_in_the_qemu Cheers, -- Aly
