A DragonFlyBSD Newbie Here, Thanks to Aaron Lee for posting the interesting news about QEMU and DragonFlyBSD.
My business strategy for a new website has DragonFlyBSD running as a guest os on a QEMU / KVM virtual machine. I already have a prototype DragonFly installation on a VM at ElasticHosts. But I have not touched it in many months, due to changed business priorities. Nevertheless, I continue to follow this DragonFlyBSD email discussion forum with great interest. And I do plan eventually to get back to using DragonFlyBSD on that VM.. * * * * * * Just looking to clarify the implications of the announcement by the QEMU folks. It is my understanding, that: 1. The announcement that DragonFlyBSD is now an unsupported *host* os for QEMU, refers to the ability of DragonFlyBSD to host the QEMU facilities that provide VMs. and 2. The announcement has nothing to do with running DragonFlyBSD as a *guest* os on a QEMU VM hosted on Linux. Is my understanding correct ? * * * * * * Thanks in advance for any responses. Steve * * * Steve Petrie, P.Eng. http://aspetrie.net/ ITS-ETO Consortium Oakville, Ontario, Canada (905) 847-3253 [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron LI To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 1:31 AM Subject: QEMU upstream marked DragonFly BSD as unsupported host systems in 2.9 release 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
