Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Shearer
> with some kind of time stamp to correlate the data from the command > line and the last updated time of the primary image file. If there have to be separate files I'd prefer a weak hash to timestamps to avoid the common problems with unexpected drift and no way to calculate which ch

Re: [Qemu-devel] Why not use exit() instead of abort()?

2007-08-05 Thread Dan Shearer
tates so I moved to exit(1). I think (can someone correct me here?) there is another reason to call atexit() for portable programs, and that is that Microsoft OSs aren't as fussy about cleaning up after a program has exited. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Qemu-devel] replacing dyngen (was: S/390 host fixed)

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Shearer
n a device language? :-) -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Shearer
t the images (not a difficult problem, I think) but VMware can. I'll try other free virtualisation systems at some point. See http://shearer.org/Microsoft_Demo_VMs for my notes so far. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] S/390 host fixed

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Shearer
ecial-purpose language for describing CPUs at this level) but I now think your work is a very good solution for bootstrapping QEMU to the next level of users. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 05:50:05PM +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: > Dan Shearer wrote: > >You do also have the architectures provided to you by QEMU :-) :-) > > Maybe in the future where we have all kinds of cheap multicore processors > this will not matter much but for

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:58:19PM +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: > Dan Shearer wrote: > > > >I see this as a different class of testing to the tinderbox-style > >testing Natalia Portillo was talking about, checking out and compiling > >under different circumst

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
o the tinderbox-style testing Natalia Portillo was talking about, checking out and compiling under different circumstances. That's very valuable, and will help address a problem that drives away a lot of potential QEMU users - they just can't compile it. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
emu > to take the screenshot, compares the took one with the last one, stops qemu, > sends the last screenshot by email, compresses all took screenshots, goes to > next VM, so on. (Preferibly without X11 running, as the machine is a mostly > headless P2P and File server) I think this can be simplified. Care to send a copy offlist of what you've done and i'll have a look at it? -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests.

2007-02-09 Thread Dan Shearer
ause that isn't the only bad thing you can do with QEMU as root by accident. The user's intention can be (more or less) detected with a parameter like "-force-run-as-root". Since once of QEMU's main points is to avoid the need f

Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtualBox PC virtualization released as Open Source

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Shearer
ively. Here is where things get hairy: The guest only thinks it's running ring-0 code, but VirtualBox has fooled the guest OS to instead enter ring 1 (which is normally unused with x86 operating systems). --- end quote -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

[Qemu-devel] Re: Virtualbox released under GPL2+

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Shearer
Ok ok, so the list archives give no result for "Virtualbox" and I only just rejoined... yes I now realise everyone else knwos all about VirtualBox. Sorry for the noise :-) -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Qemu-devel mailing list

[Qemu-devel] Virtualbox released under GPL2+

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Shearer
#x27;s a licensing bug; the Linux kernel module says "GPL2 as per COPYING", but COPYING is in fact GPL2+. So far looks like a very tidy piece of work. Now to compile it and try it out... the debugger looks like it might have a nice id