Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-07 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 07.09.2010, at 09:38, Tristan Gingold wrote: > >> >> On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: >> >>> Am 05.09.2010 um 17:57 schrieb Anthony Liguori: >>> On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> As a baby step, i

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-07 Thread Alexander Graf
On 07.09.2010, at 09:38, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: > >> Am 05.09.2010 um 17:57 schrieb Anthony Liguori: >> >>> On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly > Windo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-07 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 05.09.2010 um 17:57 schrieb Anthony Liguori: > >> On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might give

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 05.09.2010 um 17:57 schrieb Anthony Liguori: On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might give more users a chance of detecting runtime faults during the deve

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 09/05/2010 12:51 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: I'm perfectly fine with dropping it. btw, there are other features in qemu that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example. What is it useful for? Most open source stuff is multiplatform, a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 09/05/2010 11:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: We don't have a massive pool of developers sitting on their hands waiting for something else to work on. We don't have myriads of users demanding better Windows support. Search the list, there's almost no one asking questions about Windows and conside

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 07:56:02PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 5 September 2010 19:51, Avi Kivity wrote: > >  On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > >> > I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in > qemu > that seem to be academic e

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 08:56 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Well, both these examples are very far from the typical end user or even typical developer. Some of the industrial users include all of their "app developers" which count in big numbers. Now I haven't installed Nokia or Palm's SDKs but Poky's

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 5 September 2010 19:51, Avi Kivity wrote: >  On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in qemu that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it useful for?  Most open sour

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: I'm perfectly fine with dropping it. btw, there are other features in qemu that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example. What is it useful for? Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial work needs something f

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 5 September 2010 19:33, malc wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>  On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> > On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> > > > As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly >> > > > Windows (cross-)build as a .zi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Maydell
On 5 September 2010 17:05, Avi Kivity wrote: > I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in qemu > that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it useful > for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial work > needs something fa

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread malc
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly > > > > Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might give more > > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 07:25 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: I'm perfectly fine with dropping it. btw, there are other features in qemu that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example. What is it useful for? Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial work needs something faster th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Blue Swirl
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >  On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might giv

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might give more users a chance of detecting runtime faults during the developm

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might give more users a chance of detecting runtime faults during the development cycle. That's doable and useful, yes. I

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 06:44 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 05.09.2010 um 16:17 schrieb Avi Kivity: On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with alternatives that use proprietary

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 05.09.2010 um 16:17 schrieb Avi Kivity: On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with alternatives that use proprietary kernel modules. Someone should recreate kqemu b

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 06:01 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 05.09.2010 um 13:19 schrieb Avi Kivity: On 09/04/2010 04:56 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Maybe it's time to rethink the relation between QEMU and its frontends / management tools? If we want to compete with the commercial products (sic), we mig

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 05.09.2010 um 13:19 schrieb Avi Kivity: On 09/04/2010 04:56 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Maybe it's time to rethink the relation between QEMU and its frontends / management tools? If we want to compete with the commercial products (sic), we might agree on some "official" frontend per GUI

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 05:40 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with alternatives that use propri

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Blue Swirl
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >  On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >> >> Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but >> performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with >> alternatives that use proprietary kernel modules. Someone shou

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/05/2010 05:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: Easy to use GUI and integration to host system are important, but performance is also a big problem. QEMU/TCG can't compete with alternatives that use proprietary kernel modules. Someone should recreate kqemu by using KVM compatible interfaces. If some

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Blue Swirl
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >  On 09/04/2010 04:56 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: >> >> Maybe it's time to rethink the relation between QEMU and its frontends / >> management tools? If we want to compete with the commercial products (sic), >> we might agree on some "official" fro

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/04/2010 04:56 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: Maybe it's time to rethink the relation between QEMU and its frontends / management tools? If we want to compete with the commercial products (sic), we might agree on some "official" frontend per GUI-centric platform, with a Git-based repository

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-05 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04.09.2010, at 16:41, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 17.08.2010 um 21:56 schrieb Anthony Liguori: > >> I think we have a lot of dump-and-run features in QEMU whereas someone >> writes the patches to implement something and then disappears. Often time, >> the feature is not generally useful so

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 17.08.2010 um 21:56 schrieb Anthony Liguori: I think we have a lot of dump-and-run features in QEMU whereas someone writes the patches to implement something and then disappears. Often time, the feature is not generally useful so the code just rots. I think an awful lot of the PPC boar

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-09-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 17.08.2010 um 21:56 schrieb Anthony Liguori: I think my point is that Win32 is a "never to be finished feature". Every time I've ever tried to use it, it's a short period of time before it seg faults. I have a hard time believing that anyone is using it seriously. No "serious" Windows

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-18 Thread Alexander Graf
On 17.08.2010, at 21:56, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 08/17/2010 01:38 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >>> But if the features aren't being used by anyone and they consistently don't >>> work, does it matter? >>> >> No, but semi-actively breaking things that work now is different from >> removing obso

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-17 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 08/17/2010 01:38 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: But if the features aren't being used by anyone and they consistently don't work, does it matter? No, but semi-actively breaking things that work now is different from removing obsolete or never to be finished features. I think my point is

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-17 Thread malc
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Anthony Liguori > wrote: > > On 08/16/2010 01:51 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Anthony Liguori > >>  wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On 08/11/2010 11:34 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: > >>> > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-17 Thread Blue Swirl
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 08/16/2010 01:51 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Anthony Liguori >>  wrote: >> >>> >>> On 08/11/2010 11:34 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil  wrote: >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-17 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 08/17/2010 05:09 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: . There have been very few patches for Darwin, *Solaris, AIX or BSDs, non-x86 targets or non-x86 host CPUs. Without Darwin or BSD host support, darwin-user and bsd-user will be useless. When did we get Xen patches last time before the recent patch set?

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 16.08.2010 22:42, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 08/16/2010 01:51 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Anthony Liguori >> wrote: >>> Historically, even when Windows builds, it spends large periods of time not >>> actually working. I think Stefan can confirm this. Much of

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-16 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 08/16/2010 01:51 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 08/11/2010 11:34 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: Hi, since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) no longe

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-16 Thread Blue Swirl
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 08/11/2010 11:34 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil >>  wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) >>> no longer builds without error. >>> >> >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-15 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 08/11/2010 11:34 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: Hi, since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) no longer builds without error. Not true for mingw32, it was building fine here until the latest commit. I suspe

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-15 Thread Blue Swirl
Thanks, applied both. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 11.08.2010 21:19, schrieb Blue Swirl: >> >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Blue Swirl  wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Weil >>>  wrote: >>> Am 11.08.2010 18:34, schrieb Blue Swirl:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-14 Thread Andreas Färber
Hi, Am 11.08.2010 um 12:58 schrieb Stefan Weil: since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) no longer builds without error. I suspect that the same is true for QEMU on Darwin (lots of errors like darwin-user/qemu.h:149: error: cast to pointer from integer of different

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-11 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 11.08.2010 21:19, schrieb Blue Swirl: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: Am 11.08.2010 18:34, schrieb Blue Swirl: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: Hi, since several months

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-11 Thread Blue Swirl
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: >> Am 11.08.2010 18:34, schrieb Blue Swirl: >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil >>> wrote: Hi, since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-11 Thread Blue Swirl
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 11.08.2010 18:34, schrieb Blue Swirl: >> >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) >>> no longer builds without error. >> >> Not true for

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-11 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 11.08.2010 18:34, schrieb Blue Swirl: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: Hi, since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) no longer builds without error. Not true for mingw32, it was building fine here until the latest commit. That's a big surprise

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-11 Thread Blue Swirl
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Hi, > > since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) > no longer builds without error. Not true for mingw32, it was building fine here until the latest commit. > I suspect that the same is true for QEMU on Darwin (lots o

Fwd: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-11 Thread Matthijs ter Woord
Stefan, Sorry for directly replying. Resending to list: At least QEMU for windows has some serious bugs, related to GDB handling, and serial handling.. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Hi, > > since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) > no longer

[Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

2010-08-11 Thread Stefan Weil
Hi, since several months, QEMU for Windows (and mingw32 cross builds) no longer builds without error. I suspect that the same is true for QEMU on Darwin (lots of errors like darwin-user/qemu.h:149: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size), but I'm not sure here because I have no