On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:04:51PM +1000, ronnie sahlberg wrote: > Is it only very slow during boot but then becomes normal speed when > the system is fully booted and kernel and userspace are all up and > running normally?
i did not have enough patience to go past the 2 minutes needed to load text+data for the kernel. See my followup, it was due to configure using --enable-tcg-interpreter when using CLANG. cheers luigi > regards > ronnie sahlberg > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > > hi, > > while playing with various qemu versions i noticed that > > qemu-devel now in FreeBSD ports (1.1.0) is slow as hell when > > booting FreeBSD (take for instance the netmap image at > > > > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/20120608-netmap-picobsd-head-amd64.bin > > > > while 0.11.x and 1.1.1 and 1.0.1 seem to work well. > > > > I should mention that i had the same exact problem a few months > > ago with a qemu version compiled on my Mac using macports, > > which was fixed by manually building one myself from the sources > > (the working Mac version reports version 1.0.91; unfortunately > > i do not remember which version it was, but judging from the > > macports history it could have been either 0.14.1 or 1.0) > > so i do not think this is a specific problem with FreeBSD. > > > > Are you able to reproduce this problem ? Any idea on what could it be ? > > > > cheers > > luigi > >