Yes, running qemu in a dfly system will be unsupported. Running a dfly instance as a vm on a supported host will be the same.
On May 20, 2017 9:10 PM, "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > *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 > >
